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Originally Posted by lurkette
How do you make PUBLIC POLICY choices that drive personal choices one way or another? How about making healthy calories cheaper and more available? Subsidizing local farmers markets? Adding sidewalks and bike lanes to neighborhoods? How about rewarding being at a healthy BMI by lowering insurance premiums?
If you're serious about making a difference on a large scale (no pun intended) then the discussion has to continue past blaming the individual. The answer is OBVIOUSLY individual behavior, but how do you shape that behavior at the societal level?
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I'm not so sure that we should be trying to shape individual behavior through public policy. I don't believe that the Nanny State idea is a good one.
"That government is best which governs the least." - Thomas Jefferson
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He's the best, of course, of all the worst.
Some wrong been done, he done it first. -fz
I jus' want ta thank you...falettinme...be mice elf...agin...
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