The Glade 4.0

I like the idea of declaring war on social issues. I want to see if we can find a way to scalp things more frequently...

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

So instead of banning alcohol and cigarettes as Midgen mentioned, should we limit how many packs of cigarettes and 6 packs of beer someone can purchase at one time?

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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice R. Longworth

"Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash Williams

No, because that's not happening, and no one is saying it should happen. If you said,

"So, bars shouldn't be allowed to serve you a 64oz. shot of tequila even if you REALLY want it and you can afford it?"

Then I'd say "No, they should not."

++Reading Comprehension

I drink maybe 32 oz. of soda in a week. If I want to do it all at once with a cheeseburger, why should that be anybody's business but mine?

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It shouldn't.

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Holy shitsnacks!

You're absolutely right. Drinking is not the same as pop. The government has business stopping people from drinling and driving. It's a hazard to others. Soda pop and fatness isn't. If a city government wants to regulate pop size they're within their rights to do so, but it's still asinine. They really don't need to be trying to control obesity.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Why not?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

What's not happening? People aren't buying multiple packs of cigarettes at a time? People don't buy 24 packs of beer for personal consumption?

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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice R. Longworth

"Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash Williams

The biggest part of the reason is probably because the standards were revised downward somewhere around the year 2000 or so. The government wants you to be ricidulously thin. Like, cave man thin.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

This is on the true side, however, there a lot of fat **** out there.

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Holy shitsnacks!

This



So about 1964

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Very true, but have you actually looked at the ideal weights for men these days?

Some evidence indicates that a small amount of "fatness" is good for the body, protective fats can improve certain types of health including mental health. That said, words have meanings, and "morbidly obese," when properly used, certainly describes a group of our population that I would say is disproportionately high. Especially when I'm paying for their **** Medicaid.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

No one is limiting the amount of soda that you can buy, that's what isn't happening. You can buy as much as you want. The only thing happening here is food-serving establishments can no longer serve single beverages in sizes larger than 32oz.

Well in my specific case of alcohol, because bars are legally obligated to cut you off if you're obviously inebriated and 64oz. of tequila for a single person is not reasonable in any scenario.

Not a very good analogy.

The parallel to that is restaurants not serving 32oz drinks to fat people....

I like where this is going :/

"Step right here on this scale sir... yes.. sorry.. you can't have the 32oz.. at your weight, the largest soft drink we can serve you is 12oz.. would you like some water?"

They're legally obligated to cut you off if you're already drunk, but if you haven't drunk the tequila yet you're not drunk, are you?

Furthermore, we're discussing whether or not legal regulation of portion sizes is acceptable. Pointing out that there's a legal obligation not to serve an inebriated person doesn't demonstrate that there should be such regulation.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

My point is, where does it stop? What other individual freedoms will be taken away or legislated out of existence?

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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice R. Longworth

"Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash Williams

It only seems ridiculously skinny because you're used to looking at fat people.

The price, probably. Haven't you ever noticed how stores price their fountain drinks? A small is like $1.19, a medium is $1.39, a large (sometimes three times the size of the small) is $1.59. If someone buys two smalls instead of the now-banned large they pay 50% more for less than half the soda they used to get.

And here we finally have the WHY behind the move by NYC.

A significant percentage of the population have proven that they are incapable of managing their own health. And until we as a country are ready to tell people who are unhealthy that they have to shoulder the entire burden of their healthcare costs, which the majority will be unable to do and they will die, we're left with trying to mitigate the problem.

This doesn't even begin to take into account the fact that private businesses in the food industry have been slowly poisoning us for decades with increasingly processed foods, additives and marketing that convinces people that supersized amounts of food/beverages are a good thing.

It should be noted, that I don't really think this ban is the right way to go.

The ban cigarettes and alcohol...

Yup once medical costs are subsidized it becomes in everyone else's interest to control your lives of course they can't control it personally so government gets even bigger because it isn't fair to pay for slobs who don't take care of themselves.

Their right, it isn't, stop treating them with medical services if they can't pay - and to make it fair - the same with everyone.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Oh this thread is amazing.



^ that snippet is my absolutely favorite. Especially when doubled down with accusations of a lack of reading comprehension.

So I used to work in fast food in a less than affluent area when I was a young'un. We used to get people who walked their clan over from the trailer park and they would order a **** ton of alacarte value menu items and the biggest soda we had and ask for 2-3 extra cups (1x for each kid they had at the time). They would then dole it out like a pitcher of soda, and set up the value menu items as if it were a buffett with the end result that each kid got some.



^ So we should ban bottle-service?

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