New York Soda Ban

I believe the point is that if you want more soda you have to pay more.

Yup. I am of the opinion that they should not try to regulate things like that. If someone wants to buy a gallon of soda and fuck their bodies up, let them.

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Yup. I am of the opinion that they should not try to regulate things like that. If someone wants to buy a gallon of soda and fuck their bodies up, let them.

I agree with you except for with the points that Shinto made. I would love for everyone to be able to do any sort of drug, eat whatever they want in any amount they want, etc. The problem is that when they start having serious health issues as a result, it fucks everyone. There are probably ways to work around it but I don't think it's very simple.

Hospital visits relating to dug use/overweight issues that could have been avoided aren't eligible for healthcare?

Who decides what disqualifies someone? Who defines the requirements? That is the problem, and what makes it not so simple. I could eat a perfectly healthy diet, never do drugs, never smoke cigarettes, but also never exercise and be less healthy than I could be. Should that disqualify me from coverage? Should eating fast food once a week disqualify me? Is it morally acceptable for the government or some other entity to keep track my lifestyle for the sake of making that decision?

It's a problem that sounds easy to solve on paper, but in practice it just isn't so simple.

Mandating that everyone have health care would solve the problem. But that doesn't sound good politically.

It wouldn't be politically good until people realized it's good.

Mandating that everyone have health care would solve the problem. But that doesn't sound good politically.

Isn't that the point of mandatory health insurance, like the US has? Just because you give someone every opportunity possible to be healthy doesn't mean they will do it. Fat fucks are fat fucks.

I agree with you except for with the points that Shinto made. I would love for everyone to be able to do any sort of drug, eat whatever they want in any amount they want, etc. The problem is that when they start having serious health issues as a result, it fucks everyone. There are probably ways to work around it but I don't think it's very simple.

What a cop-out answer.