McDonalds Voucher Book

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Most people are aware of the effects of crack sugar, and yet some of them still choose to use it. Should we mind our own business and let them get on with it? Maybe. But the historically our government usually have interfered to stop people from making choices that hurt themselves.

It's a difficult issue. On the one hand I'm all for free will - to use the drugs example, I would like to support legalisation. But on the other hand millions of people have proved that if given free will they will choose immediate pleasure even if it means suffering later, which is why they choose to smoke tobacco, and to eat at 'restaurants' like McDonalds. And as I remarked above, this bothers me. If left unchecked we would all get as fat as Americans. Is free will still a good thing if it results in a country of unhealthy people? Maybe we should approach unhealthy food like we do alcohol and tobacco: allow it, but put a large tax on it to discourage people from buying it?

By and large I do 'let them get on with it'. I may occasionally moan about human stupidity on usenet, but I would never approach a McDonalds patron and try to convince them they have made a poor decision. Maybe I should do!

I think the real victims of fast food are children, who certainly don't have the ability to make decisions about what is best for themselves. I was fed that crap as a child, and as a result it permanently ruined my pallet. I was like those kids on "Jamie's School Dinners" who had been eating Turkey Twizzlers from such a young age that they could no longer enjoy the flavour of vegetables. I'm still in the process of re-educating my pallet and it is hard work. I would like to see laws banning children from eating in McDonalds.

-- Richard