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Originally Posted by pan6467
So because someone has decided that sodas are unhealthy for me, my choice to drink them maybe limited and harrassed?
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Is a sticker harassment?
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I find people riding my ass as I do the speed limit on the Interstate life threatening I have to slam my brakes they plow into me. And the cops we pass don't seem to share my beleif as they allow these drivers to do that.
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There are plenty of bad cops out there. I don't see the connection.
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I find it offensive anyone would support the government dictating to and taxing us on, what we can put into our bodies.
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Do you support the existence of the FDA? I know it isn't free of corruption, but it does a lot of good, too.
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While they allow companies to pollute our air, water, and load our produce and meats with known carcinogens.
While they allow pharmaceuticals to push through drugs that do far more harm than good.
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So, because things are so bad we shouldn't try to stop any bad things?
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While they allow gun advocates to conceal and carry, to buy semi autmatics, to buy just about anything..... because if they didn't allow that would infringe on those people's Constitutional rights.
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Soda rights are not covered in the constitution. I checked.
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WTF about my rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Where are my rights to enjoy my life the way I deem fit.
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It's the same princepal that made suicide illegasl for centuries. Just as you don't have a right to harm others, you don't have a right to harm yourself. Yes, it is your body, and as such, suicide is no longer illegal. That doesn't mean people shouldn't be warned. Had there been a warning on that infamous cup of hot coffee, that idiot woman wouldn't have been able to extort money from Mc Donalds. I don't support McDonalds, but that woman was wrong for what she did. Following that logic, the main reason for this is surely to make sure Pepsi and Coke aren't liable for poor health of it's customers. Is that wrong? I dunno. It's buisness.
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I pay my taxes, I pay my insurance prememiums and I pay my bills. So why the fuck can I not consume any legal product I choose to?
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It's not illegal to drink coke. No one is taking that right from you.
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How can anyone who fights for rights believe this attitude of "protecting the people from themselves" is ok?
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If your friend were going to blow his head off, wouldn't you try to talk him or her out of it? I'm not saying you wrestle the gun from them, but simply try to talk to them. That's not forcing anything.
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I have news for all you....... FROM THE DAY WE ARE CONCIEVED WE HAVE AN INCURABLE DISEASE CALLED AGING AND DEATH.
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I don't see that as a valid argument (no offence). Along that logic, one could say that murder is fine because we'll all die some day.
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Some of us may die before we are born, others may live to 90 BUT we are all going to fucking DIE, people. We are all going to get sick and go to a doctor a few times in our lives. And yes, we are all going to die of something. Government dictating what we can or cannot consume, or taxing things so that we cannot afford them will not protect us from the end result...... DEATH.
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I'd rather live to 90 than 55. I just asked my wife and she said the same. I IMed a friend of mine, and he agreed. What if a food you were eating or drinking were shortening your life and endangering your health, and you didn't know it? I know this is mostly about legal liability, but if one person looks at his or her coke and says, "This can give me diabetes?! F*** that!!", than it's worth it.
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I am more scared of what government allows our food companies to put on our produce or in our meats or allows companies to dump in our ground water supplies or into our Earth than I am about what I knowingly put into my body, for enjoyment.
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Would you make the same argument for ex? or heroine? Substances that do harm to the mind and body that provide pleasure?
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I may get run over tomorrow, my apt. may catch on fire because of faulty wiring, a terrorist or nut job may come into work and decide that we addiction counselors destroyed their lives and kill us........ Government cannot feasibly not be expected to protect every scenario of my death. Yet by their incessent taxings, telling me where when and how much I may consume, making my consumption a pariah in society, is them trying to control certain scenarios.
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I might get run over by a Coke truck tomorrow. That's irony, btw. It's not about control. If it were, you'd be drinking more soda, because the soda special interest groups would pay off politicians and hold biased studies that say soda is fine and healthy. That's not the case.