Liberty Alone

Apparently we cannot be held responsible for what we eat, the state must intervene to stop us getting fat.

This is one of the most obscene things I’ve read in a long time, but its just the continuing infantalisation of people. You cannot be trusted to choose a school for your children, or to spend your money as you wish, now you cannot choose what to eat apparently.

Not that this is that far from what some LibDems have said. Going back to the school dinners debate on whether children should be forced to eat school dinners, apparently poor people cannot choose between free school dinners and a packed lunch for their children so they must be forced to feed their children ‘properly’.

There is no reason for messing in people’s lives like this. Costing the NHS is no reason, the NHS is not worth losing more liberty over (its already stolen enough liberty as it is), the economy is no reason - if people become economically active through obesity then don’t support them in this it is their fault (aside from the minority of cases where a medical condition is responsible).

These authoritarian meddlers can just fuck off and leave us alone to eat what ever we like.

(anyone else confused by the ‘crisis’ of size-zero models and the ‘crisis’ of obesity?)

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