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You have it all wrong. We have a visceral reaction to the government making demands on how we should run our lives. I think your disdain of freedom of choice is pretty pathetic and troubling at the least for someone who considers themselves a free country.

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Are there some poor unfortunate souls out there that actually prefer their water laced with lead?

Is this the next generation of anti-vax dogma? That lead pipes are actually good?

You've let corporations, whose interest is profit, not health, or good service, dictate what the government should regulate instead, for the benefit of the population.

My local county government services my water. Pretty much everywhere in my state it’s the same. There’s not a corporation involved at all, unless they contracted work out to a construction company.

Put more plainly: “the afflictions of other Americans is not my problem - I’m in this for myself and that’s what freedom means to me.”

> demands on how we should run our lives

Unless I install the pipes personally, it's someone else's actions that are detrimentally impacting my life, isn't it?

> I think your disdain of freedom of choice is pretty pathetic and troubling

What I have disdain for is the pathetic and troubling idea that we are somehow, isolated individuals whose choices impact no-one else, and not in an interdependent society.

Using it or not is an individual choice.

Using… the water that comes from the tap is an individual choice?? So like do you shower with bottled water for freedom or what precisely

How popular is desiccation due to choosing not to use water, as a lifestyle?

Lacing the water supply with an environmentally persistent toxin isn't a freedom, its an impingement on everyone else's.

Lead poisoning is freedom We've always at been at war with Eurasia.

Poe's Law applies here.

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