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Green Line
Junior Chimp
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« on: January 05, 2017, 08:33:53 PM »

I support.  Good!
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Green Line
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2017, 08:48:11 PM »

We're not changing them to our liking. We're changing them into a healthier version of themselves. Drinking less soda will bring them happiness, and they just don't know it. Alcohol is taxed generally and tanning beds ought to be as well.

Jesus Christ. Do you actually believe in this garbage? Were you taught how to be little fascists in school? Good lord.

It's none of your business what choices other people make and you don't know what's good for someone else. And those who think they do are intolerant, stupid scumbags.

You know what? Having a healthy relationship with God is good for the soul. People who reject religion are hurting themselves and don't know it. Let's find some way to tax them into making the *right* choice in accepting the Cristian faith.

It's the right thing to do, right? But somehow I don't think you would support that. Weird. It's almost like you want to use legislation to force people to be a certain way - your way - yet would balk if someone decided that you should make changes to be like them.

"I hate your lifestyle and think you should be forced to change because you are too stupid to realize how bad it is for you" #CTL-Left

Yeah we do actually.  Pop is bad for you.  Everyone knows that.  God knows it too, Jesus never drank it.
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Green Line
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2017, 08:59:06 PM »

I find it funny that the collectivists are accusing the individualists of being triggered when it is the former group that is offended by the very idea that people should be allowed to make their own bad decisions.

You don't get to sit here and lecture people about how you think you know what is better for others. Again, that is why Trump won in the first place. Stop treating everyone as if you are the intelligent ones and they are the stupid ones. That type of intellectual arrogance is devastating for democracy and for freedom.


FTR: I have virtually cease drinking soda as not drinking it has helped me keep my sugar low (thankfully, I haven't had a serious health care, but I've had a few incidents in the past where it was running a little high) I also stopped eating pork for religious and health reasons and also cut down on my beef intake over the past 2 years (though, its gone up a bit since November). I made these decisions on my own, because I am free to make those decisions.

However, I still drink a lot alcohol, still eat a crapload of unhealthy foods  and have gained a ton of weight. are you going to try and force me to change those behaviors?  If your answer is yes then you truly think you are on a higher plateau then us "little people" and don't believe in any sort of freedom in any real sense of the term.



YEah but it's just a tax.  We tax cigarettes because of the horrible effects they have on people, and really pop is almost just as bad if you drink too much of it.  It's not like they're banning it, just making it a little more expensive.
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Green Line
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2017, 09:31:03 PM »

But smoking rates have gone way down.  That's a good thing.  Less people will die.
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