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Originally Posted by PR_Tom;18987024NY city banned eating in the subway a while back too. Big deal. They banned smoking in many places and there was huge outcry from smokers. Now it's a yawn. This is no different. It's a good idea and if I lived there I'd have supported it too. There never should have been approval in the 80's for drink cups the size of childrens beach pails.
There is no attempt to tell you not to drink your weight in soda every day. Just on the size of container a food establishment can serve it in. You can get unlimited refills.
. The premise that the gov. is trying to tell you what you can eat or drink is false. Everyone will get over it if it passes, which it might not.
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Sorry, but that is EXACTLY what they are trying to do. If I, as a private business owner, cannot sell people my product in the sizes that I choose to, then that is the government telling you what you can and cannot eat or drink. I don't understand how you can't see that? Since when is it the governments business to "approve" the size of a drink container??? It's between the business and the customer.
As to your other examples of how the government taking away freedoms one by one, and people becoming used to it, so that it's "no big deal", I agree. This is how freedom disappears... a little bit at a time, until it doesn't exist at all anymore.
It's the same way you boil a live frog. If you drop it in hot water, it will jump out, so you put it in cold water, and slowly heat it up until the frog boils. Smart governments work the same way. Each little step will be "no big deal", a "yawn", and after a few decades they control everything.
People who think like you do are exactly the kind of people that governments love....
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