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I look at it this way. Strip joints are banned within the borders of my community by ordinance. However, I can easily find places to watch women stripping their clothes off (yeah, I'm a pervert). My community has not banned me from that activity.
The soda ban is analogous. The people in the community are not banned from drinking soda. They probably have a liter in their refrigerator. They just can't get it from certain establishments within the borders of the community.
So, is this a battle over the right to drink soda, or is this a battle to be able to buy soda in town?
If the city government banned soda from a person's home, that is a battle I would gladly take up. But iI see this as battle over the inconvenience of having to go out of town to get your soda... big deal!
Well if you're content with having to travel then so be it. At what point will the "traveling" get out of hand..3 hours to a state that does sell soda ..is that your limit ?
No soda in the schools was first. Now it's no soda in restaurants. Next it will be no soda in supermarkets.
Well if you're content with having to travel then so be it. At what point will the "traveling" get out of hand..3 hours to a state that does sell soda ..is that your limit ?
No soda in the schools was first. Now it's no soda in restaurants. Next it will be no soda in supermarkets.
And really, soda bans are simply a symptom of the larger problem, and that is that governments at all levels are becoming increasingly intrusive in the every day lives of the people. What Cambridge is doing under the pretense of public health is really an attempt to regulate consumer behavior. The government will always find a way to justify this sort of thing so long as the people allow it. That is why being indifferent to it is a problem. Goverment clearly does not fear the people anymore, and indifference amongst the people is a big part of why.
Well if you're content with having to travel then so be it. At what point will the "traveling" get out of hand..3 hours to a state that does sell soda ..is that your limit ?
No soda in the schools was first. Now it's no soda in restaurants. Next it will be no soda in supermarkets.
Bingo. I'll wager a lot of Americans think like you. Not that it's bad mind you but you are willing to give something up because your government said so.
Bingo. I'll wager a lot of Americans think like you. Not that it's bad mind you but you are willing to give something up because your government said so.
I understand your point. But if it is not banned in the house, if it is not a matter of possession, then it is a matter of acquisition. There are many ways of acquiring a legal product, and I don't know of anywhere that soda, itself, is illegal.
I have never seen such an uproar of idiocy over overly sweetened carbonation.
Why don't you people that are having a fit over the pushback of the corpoprate food industry ever make this much noise about the additives and toxic junk entering the food supply for the sake of Food Inc.'s bottom line? The industry that is feeding you garbage for profits is the industry that you support and enable. That is dumber than dumb and I thnk that all of the bubbles in soda has damaged your brains. And btw...empty calories is not the only reason that soda is not a healthy choice.
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..if it is not a matter of possession, then it is a matter of acquisition.
This is all too common theme amongst many acitivists using a back door to achieve what they want, e.g. instead of advocating to ban guns you ban the lead in bullets making them very expensive to purchase. It's still legal to own a a gun!
I have never seen such an uproar of idiocy over overly sweetened carbonation.
Why don't you people that are having a fit over the pushback of the corpoprate food industry ever make this much noise about the additives and toxic junk entering the food supply for the sake of Food Inc.'s bottom line? The industry that is feeding you garbage for profits is the industry that you support and enable. That is dumber than dumb and I thnk that all of the bubbles in soda has damaged your brains. And btw...empty calories is not the only reason that soda is not a healthy choice.
I push back with my spending money. If I don't like a product I don't buy it. My choice, not the government's.
PS: I rarely drink more than 1 soda a week.
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