tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459298.post116662830679899958..comments2023-10-18T06:26:15.632-07:00Comments on Protohuman Blog: Ban Me Now or Ban Me LaterUghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267287853892482870noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459298.post-1166696001801652842006-12-21T02:13:00.000-08:002006-12-21T02:13:00.000-08:00Smokers actually "SAVE" America Billions in health...Smokers actually "SAVE" America Billions in health care and prescription drug costs over time because they tend to croak-off long before achieving geriatric status where the truly monstrous medical costs lurk. As macabre as that statement sounds the empirical data collected by many sources supports it as true regardless of how it makes us “feel”. <BR/><BR/>That we do these things to ourselves is correctly identified as the source of all the trouble with the least beneficial behavior we can exhibit occurs behind the closed curtain of the voting booth where we choose to vote stupidly. Thus is one of the many costs of our freedom. The New York city council simply wanted to strip its citizens of the cost of eating badly but simultaneously stripped away the accompanying freedom to choose a tasty diet in the process. In America, we have the freedom to be uninformed, lazy, gluttonous, angry, ambitious, nurturing, apathetic, or completely stupid. Each behavioral choice carries with it an undeniable cost. <BR/><BR/>“The price of Freedom is eternal vigilance”, this statement rings true not only imploring us to be watchful of the enemies of freedom from the world at large but to be mindful of our own government and perhaps even helping to make us a little more aware of how we handle our own freedom. There does seem to be a Legal / Financial component to this bilious ban of trans-fat hiding behind the curtain of governmental altruism that has nothing to do with dietary over indulgence. This ban forces one to ask “What next New York?” Perhaps we can expect state sanctioned food rations and exercise programs in the future try to save us from ourselves. Just remember all of you Soylent Green is people!!!!!TJWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14184273106915507133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459298.post-1166659871662619992006-12-20T16:11:00.000-08:002006-12-20T16:11:00.000-08:00Personally, I think the trans fat issue is massive...Personally, I think the trans fat issue is massively overblown. But since a lot of tort lawyers stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars off trans-fat, you know the media and a lot of politicians are going to play the issue to the hilt.<BR/><BR/>We are not used to quantifying the risks we take every day. If we were, we might understand that eating modest amounts of trans fats is not in the top group of risks for most of us.<BR/><BR/>But where there's lots of money to be made by class action lawsuits, the truth won't come out until years after the big cash awards--like with silicone implants.al finhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13739269791915017382noreply@blogger.com