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Originally posted by ARTelevision
Yes.
As you know I think it's a hopeless situation for our citizens and will inevitably get worse. And you know I don't really think self-control or things like that are the issue. I know it sounds all level-headed to say people need more self control, etc.
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i see your point big time. Self control can be difficult, especially this day and age where a few years ago everyone lived the 'the more, the better'. but at some point in time you have to say "I can't be a junkie". if it is food, alcohol, caffiene, drugs, sex.... abuse is abuse. sometimes you just need to try and have limits.
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But you know, there are highly powerful - historically unprecedented - forces at work to sell things that are terribly fattening. What if these forces are more powerful than the average person's threshold ability to resist? It may be a psychological fact.
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Let's try to break the cycle! for the next generations, too, so their lives may be less misguided. splurge less, live a better life. If we try and fail we can say. we tried. we really tried: that is honorable.... to say 'i didn't want to' is shameful. (for me)
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I know this is not a very popular position. I just feel compelled to ask that it be considered. Because - what if it is true that people are psychologically overwhelmed beyond the point of being able to resist the forces that are pitted against them?
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fuck popularity, my friend. the popular thing is to be a sheep. I think many of us here are shepherds. continue your beliefes no matter if one person or the whole world agrees. I think, as a human being who's whole life has studied others' behavoires (especially during sickness, icu ect) that the more we discuss a topic, the better we live.
sometimes it sucks to be the one poster who disagrees.... but our voices count in the short and long run.