Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not?

• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  are you being intentionally obtuse? obviously they wouldn’t ban all vehicle, that wasn’t suggested in the OP either.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you?

    We’re talking about banning one of the major things that is food. If you ban meat, you only have plants and fungi left. So yes, I think banning an entire branch of transportation is a decent analogy.

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• splendoruranium@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Exaclty … certain types in certain areas with a reason. That’s regulation.

  Which is just what I wrote, yes. Excising every unmaintained or outdated vehicle from traffic everywhere for example is just as valid a regulation as excising a certain type of food - any food - from general consumption. There’d simply have to be a good reason. And once there is, yep, what can and can be eaten gets dictated.
  Again, that’s already how it works, in traffic and in cuisine.

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