I lived in Germany for a while. There, the water that comes out of your tab doesn't get fluorized. Instead, they add fluoride to tooth paste.
So, is Germany less free or more free?
So, is Germany less free or more free?
Can communities choose to fluoridate their water at the utility level or are they banned from doing so by legislation like they are in Utah?
You're using an extreme definition of freedom that I suspect is not quite the trump card you think it is. No, "communities" can't just do whatever they want because they "choose" to, and nobody ouside the lunatic fringe thinks that's a prerequisite for freedom.
They have more of one, less of the other.
The OP contrasts adding fluroide to water vs. not adding fluoride to water and brings up the freedom question. I find that very interesting. But he omits that there's also the variant I sketched, namely that fluoride could still be made available to the population, but not through water.
Now, how does this factoid relate to the freedom (positive or negative) question?
So, please don't read my post as negative, my intent was to bring an additional perspective to the table.
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