NY Soda ProhibitionFollow

Awesome: just.. wow.
and the greatest thing is that it doesn't apply to diet sodas.. with poison like aspartame!!
Are you people OK with this? A ban on soda.. a reinforcement of the Kool-Aid.
One more brick in the wall of civil liberties pulled down.

Thoughts? Are you going to make up little excuses like "well it's for the best!!" and "Ooo it's only over 16oz".
GIVE ME A @#%^ING BREAK.
This is your country; being taken over by psychopathic control freaks... like frog slowly being boiled.. blissfully unaware.
Next it's Milk: Popcorn:...VITAMIN C!! DON'T get me wrong. I hate soda.. this isn't about health. It's about liberty.
War on Obesity? I'm sure it will prove as profitable as the War on Drugs.. quite literally.
What kind of excuses are you liberal YES-MEN going to cough up for this one?

baaahhhh baaaaaaahhhhh








Edited, Sep 14th 2012 8:44am by Kelvyquayo

Isn't it only in banning soda in giant cups?

I can't see where it's going to impact much of anything.

Yeah, it's dumb. It also doesn't affect me at all so it doesn't really keep me up at night. If the idea came to town, I'd write a strongly worded letter, I suppose.

Sure, but what's the harm? NYC is squashing the rights of it's citizens to drink their sodas in gallon sized containers. Big fucking deal.

I cut out soda from my diet years ago, and it's not enough of an infringement on anyone else's rights for me to give a fuck otherwise.

Like Joph said, it doesn't affect me because I don't live there, but complacency in general allowed this to happen.

"Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me."

Complacency?

The whole health board agreed on this?

Seems to me if the citizens of NYC REALLY didnt want to lose their right to drink soda from a big container they could have stopped it.

Perhaps they choose to pick more important battles to fight.

When they come to take your big cups away, I'll stand by ya man.

Do you not understand how many people died to let people sit a little longer before getting up to get a refill?!

Your outrage is almost ten years late, then.

Are you really that @#%^ing dense?

Edited, Sep 14th 2012 8:43am by BrownDuck

It establishes the precedent that it's perfectly OK for the government to regulate personal choices (and business service offerings) based strictly on an indirect link to government subsidies. It doesn't matter whether it's soda, candy, red meat, geneticly modified corn, etc. The government has no business regulating anybody's eating habits until such time as that person comes to collect on government health benefits. Blanket legislation prohibiting personal choice is not the answer.

The government regulates personal choice all the time if it's beneficial to the constituency as a whole to modify a behavior.

Milk has to be homogenized, cigarettes are taxed, dope is banned. One city disallowing extra large cups for soda consumption is extremely trivial in both it's direct impact and indirectly as symbolic of governments reach or over-reach as it might be.

It does give gbaji a good example of 'big government' though.

If I was a citizen of NYC I could probably get a bit worked up about the extra monies that will have to be spent to enforce this law. That's as far as my outrage would go.