Comment by ekianjo
20 days ago
You can add fluoride in your own water if you want to. Nobody is preventing your own freedom to drink fluoride.
20 days ago
You can add fluoride in your own water if you want to. Nobody is preventing your own freedom to drink fluoride.
That argument works both ways. You can also source your own water if you don't want municipal water.
Except that I am already paying for the water coming out from my tab, so I expect it to be free of extra chemicals since I pay for it.
Nobody's preventing you from going and finding your own water source either. The government is too much of a nanny state for putting flouride in water for public health, but it's just fine for providing water to you in the first place?
In the USA it’s generally illegal to collect rain.
That’s definitely true for some places but how are you measuring that? By population or perhaps state and territory?
Where I live the city subsidizes rain collection barrels.
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That's not true in general especially if you weight it with population in mind, such as the wet states of NJ, PA, MD etc. that have more population; though there are areas where the states have passed laws concerning water rights where it is true(CO, WY).
Yes, why don't the poor just eat cake when they can't get bread?
Defaults matter. Most people won't care or know about the change.
Yes that's where the freedom of citizens comes into play.
Nobody is preventing the citizens from digging their own well and ensuring their own water supply and having bad teeth.
I like it how when it comes to fluoride in water, that's the nanny state pushing things on people, but when it comes to municipal water, said people can't bother to use their freedom and get their own water supply. It's the same that parents refuse to vaccinate their children for measles and then hurry to the doctors when the child inevitably gets sick. The freedom to die of preventable diseases is a great thing!
You can also remove fluoride from your own water if you want to. Although I don't know if there are any filters that can distinguish between naturally occurring fluoride (ok) and fluoride added by the government (evil).
This requires a Reverse-Osmosis filter which is super expensive. So if you really want to give fluoride, I'd be happy for the government to hand out free sodium fluoride tabs for whoever wants it, in exchange to not force the water to have fluoride by default. See, we get the best of both worlds?
How much of your water treatment do you want to do yourself? I assume you don’t want the ‘government’ to send you completely untreated water. So what is the problem with fluoridation as compared to all the other uncontroversial ways in which your tap water has been treated? All kinds of stuff gets added to and removed from the water.
Also, there are simple (and cheap) water filters that are quite effective at removing fluoride. As fluoride is often naturally present in water anyway, it is only really necessary to remove the majority of the added fluoride to get the water back into a ‘natural’ state.
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No, they're banning communities from making the decision for themselves. Government so small it fits right into your drinking tap!
Local governments are prohibited from adding fluoride to their drinking water, even if their community wants it.