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Originally Posted by washoe
Lol. Yes. You're a fat shamer. But yes you are right. Most people are eating themselves to death is what I'm seeing. Wtf do you need a 4 gallon jumbo soda to eat with your 99 whopper? That should be banned. Menthol cigarettes might have have been banned in a justified way, but where is the standard?
I'm not having problems with cigarettes or crack cocaine. Most people don't have problem with those. Most people would have a problem with getting shot.
Yet, what do you ban? Cigarettes! Not guns, not cooperations targeting "whales".
Guns, cigarettes, and fast food don't fit nicely into a category. There's nothing inherently wrong with a Sausage Egg and Cheese McGriddle. It only becomes a problem when people like me show up every morning like clockwork to get two of them and don't do any of the work required to offset the calories.
I'm on board with limiting obviously gluttonous food offerings like the 64oz sodas, but I don't think you can just ban the sale of anything other than Kale and Salmon. It's going to be hard to argue any other platform. Either "unhealthy" food is okay, or it's not. The addicts are going to order 3 sodas to get by the packaging limits, or they'll just come back through the line again. You can't save those people from themselves, and it's senseless to punish everyone else for their lack of self-control.
Guns are a tool with valid uses and you are free debate how to limit the misuse of that tool. The recreational use of firearms generally doesn't involve endangering the health and safety of others like say, cigarettes.
Cigarettes are simply a death-delivery system with no other valid use or function. They exist because the manufacturer knows they're addictive and any business that can get their customer to literally and compulsively light the product on fire and come back to buy more is obviously going to do whatever is necessary to keep that gravy train rolling. I just don't think it's a fair comparison.