Boston Bans Soda Drinks...
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It's amazing how well people are now accepting a violation of rites and total government control. What's next? They're going to monitor how long our TV's are on to make sure we don't watch too much? People aren't fat because of soda. People are fat, because they want to be fat, and won't use common sense when eating. Unless you have some sort of medical condition that makes you fat, you have no excuses.
I think people are accepting it because it's really not that big of a deal. Like PMJ pointed out, soda in Boston will now be similar to alcohol and cigarettes: you can buy it pretty much anywhere except public buildings. There are far more invasive policies that the government has/could have enacted, so I don't think a ban on soda in cafeterias, vending machines, and concession stands is too terrible. At work? Bring a soda from home or go to a grocery store on your lunch break.
Drinking soda does nothing to harm anyone around you. Drinking soda is no different than eating a candy bar, or a piece of cake. The same goes for sweat tea, and sports drinks. The government has no right to tell people what they should and shouldn't eat. At this rate, people will be fine with accepting total government control over their lives. Governments with total control over countries don't happen over night. They slowly take away little things, so no one cares. Before anyone knows what happened, they have no control over their own lives any more.
No thanks... I'll keep my freedom please.
No thanks... I'll keep my freedom please.
Dear People who have complained about this in this thread,
I know more than half(if not all of you) do not live in Boston. Why care?
I don't know why I struck through that. It's true.
I don't know why I struck through that. It's true.
@DarthPika: They simply REMOVED THE SODA FROM PUBLIC BUILDINGS! Seriously, what the hell? That's not removing a freedom, that's making a conscious decision to stop carrying a product! If they told people that they could no longer drink soda, then yeah, that'd almost be cause for alarm. But you're overreacting to a near comical extent, and it's frightening how easy it is to incite fear and anger in some people. Please read the law, or at least about what the law does before you jump to conclusions like that.
Considering how the American Prohibition on alcohol flopped in the '20's, I doubt banning soda would come to much on even a municipal level anyway, with almost every supermarket, food court, and grocery store in any given city stocking soft drinks, it'd be something way too difficult and expensive to propagate and enforce (i.e. doing background checks and regular government searches of businesses, which in itself is mighty "invasive," or at least depressingly impractical with everything else the city has to take care of on a regular basis). Even the thought of having a speakeasy to go get some Sprite makes me laugh (or Al Capone making millions off selling Hawaiian Punch, haha 
). Though over here in New York the state government heavily considered instating a "soda tax," I forgot whether or not they actually went through with it; I never noticed any price increase because I kicked the soda habit a while ago, one of the best health decisions I ever made. When I'm at home, unless there's people over, I never drink soda (not even seltzer either), just straight up water, the original drank. It seems governments have better things to do now, like targeting Happy Meals instead…
). Though over here in New York the state government heavily considered instating a "soda tax," I forgot whether or not they actually went through with it; I never noticed any price increase because I kicked the soda habit a while ago, one of the best health decisions I ever made. When I'm at home, unless there's people over, I never drink soda (not even seltzer either), just straight up water, the original drank. It seems governments have better things to do now, like targeting Happy Meals instead…