Comment on Here as well

• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s like saying losing chess against a grandmaster is a choice because you pick where the pieces go.

  source

  • moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How is choosing to buy a sugared drink instead of water the same as playing a game of chess against a grandmaster? What exactly about it makes your analogy fit?

    source

    • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here’s a few ways:

      Information: does an individual know chess rules? Openings? En passant? Do they want to spend the time and effort to learn? Are they getting their info from reliable sources or are they learning bongcloud and knooks?

      Difference in skill level: the food and diet industries have thousands of specialists on their side with experience in psychology, advertisement, economics, lobbying, etc. Grandmasters can set up traps that new like a good idea to their opponent while thinking 10 steps ahead.

      Complexity: chess and diet are not a single choice, but a series of choices, some of which make later moves more difficult.

      Effort: it takes a long time to learn enough to even put up a decent resistance to a grandmaster, let alone win. It’s more than I’d care to put in. I don’t want to think about chess all the time. That’s called a chessing disorder.

      source

      • moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So your point is that it’s difficult to resist the urge to buy sugared drinks due to distinct factors such as lack of information about it being unhealthy (which I seriously doubt nowadays) and people being psychologically manipulated through advertisements and making their product economically competitive. I agree some of these factors make it easier to be unhealthy, but I disagree that it’s enough to say people don’t have and make a choice. The choice to be healthy is just a harder one to make than it should.

        source

        • -> View More Comments