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>"Sorry, but you can't be trusted to make good choices about what you put in your body, so we will make laws that force you to make better choices"

Incidentally, it's quite common that people can't be trusted to make good choices about such things.

Forcing people to make good choices isn't a priori absurd. See: seatbelts.

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> Incidentally, it's quite common that people can't be trusted to make good choices about such things.

How much of that is being constantly bombarded with marketing (psychological priming) that brainwashes us into making poor decisions? Totally agree though, we as humans are our own worst enemies.

Marketing is not just psychological priming - it's also, first and foremost, dishonest communication. Given its prevalence today, it's getting difficult to expect adults to always make right decisions if most of their information sources are garbage.

People have been making bad decisions since the dawn of time.

Any idea that has 'since the beginning of time' in it gets an instant eye roll.

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