Comment by betaby
14 days ago
> This is a public health issue.
Sugary drinks are sold in France without any restrictions. Won't somebody think about kids?
14 days ago
> This is a public health issue.
Sugary drinks are sold in France without any restrictions. Won't somebody think about kids?
Great example, no, they are not.
There is a special tax on sugary drinks in France to curb sales and distributors have been banned from schools years ago precisely to limit the health impact.
What a terrible and entirely unconvincing argument.
"$unhealthy_thing is not subject to restrictions, therefore $other_unhealthy_thing should also not be"? lol. lmao, even.
Should we let children purchase cigarettes? Alcohol? Cannabis? Cocaine?
The BMI epidemic in America tells me maybe we should ban sugary drinks.
At some point, society draws a line between what it deems acceptable and what it does not. In two generations it is virtually assured that we/our grandchildren will look back on Facebook and TikTok the way we currently look at the tobacco industry. The way I know this is because the CEOs don't let their kids dogfood their products. Famously, Steve Jobs wouldn't let his kids have an iPhone. Mark and Cecilia didn't let their kids use socials.
These are bad products designed to be deliberately addictive, and it turns out they're really only good at making people feel shitty and giving teen girls eating disorders.
Nobody would accept that we let criminals and pedophiles run schools.
Meanwhile there is this digital world that children reside in that is a completely lawless anarchy...
Something will have to be done about it one way or another.
Online isn't school. The comparison is offensive.
Your kids don't need to be online like they need to be in school. To suggest that they do is utterly ludicrous.
It's a disgrace.
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> Should we let children purchase cigarettes? Alcohol? Cannabis? Cocaine?
No. An that is illegal in France. Somewhere from 1960 if I recall corectly.
Sugary drinks on other are somehow OK with the french and Macron in particular.
Goodness it's almost as if society is imperfect.
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