Comment by ekianjo
21 days ago
> Putting fluoride in water promotes freedom.
I rather define freedom by the government not deciding what's good for me
21 days ago
> Putting fluoride in water promotes freedom.
I rather define freedom by the government not deciding what's good for me
> I rather define freedom by the government not deciding what's good for me
Does that mean you are against this bill?
Before the bill, your community could either use your own water system, without fluoride, or use the wider system, which has fluoride.
After this bill, your community no longer can use your own water system with fluoride, and the wider system also does not have fluoride.
On a first read, this bill makes the government remove a choice for you, deciding what is good for you.
(I don’t have a horse in this race honestly. Assuming everyone can get toothpaste and toothbrushes, the effect is the same. But the wording of the bill is strange: “may not add fluoride” rather than just “is allowed not to add”.)
Source: https://archive.is/Nustz
"Your community could decide" is not freedom in the American political sense. In US political theory, the unit of freedom is the individual, full stop.
I've seen this retort elsewhere. It's not true. It's why corporations are persons with first amendment and other freedoms.
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You're free to get your water straight from the ground, then.
Or just not consume any water.
Are we also "free" to not pay "voluntary" taxes then? We have to understand that we're N-levels deep into this spaghetti mess, and as a consequence of that it's very hard to argue anything from first-principles or absolutes.