Illinois sweetened beverage tax goes into effect July 1st 2017-moved to the 12th now

[palou]

The_Yoda said:

palou said:

These ARE habits that you take as a child, though, wouldn't it be fair to deincentivise families from preparing their children to an unhealthy life?

Fuck free will Papa Goverment should tell you when to sleep, where to work, what to eat and drink.  Papa Goverment is never wrong.

 

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I was talking specifically about children, if you haven't noticed. More specifically, the influence of parents over their children. I consider children to be humans, and thus, they cannot be "owned", even by a parent. People have free will concerning themselves - not upon others. Since a child does not have the required capacities to make informed decisions or to simply look after themselves, some decisions need to be made for them, and some things need to be given to them. Parents, having a natural attachment and sensibility to the vulnerability of their children, can naturally be the first to be trusted to use this power over the child in the child's best interest. It is nonetheless a reality that not all parents know (or sometimes desire) the best interest of the child at all times, which, to me, revokes their right of intervention in a child's freedom in said context. So, we can collectively agree upon rules (the function of a democratic government) that delimit what can be considered to be in a child's interest.