Comment Re:Get a refill.. (Score 1) 1141
As long as the government is intervening in their every day life by providing a safety net for their irresponsible decisions, how is this a bad thing?
Who is the government to tell people that they're being irresponsible? And, if they are but aren't harming anyone else, so what?
Do you really, seriously, truthfully believe that the Nanny State banning big sodas won't prevent soda addicts from... drum roll please... buying two of them?
All this really does is prove that politicians are stupider than people who drink ten liters of soda in a day.
So back in 1993 when the largest soda was say, 20 floz (I can't remember the exact numbers), did you go and buy two of them? Of course not! That would have seemed weird. But now, nobody bats an eye and someone getting a 40 floz soda, especially when it's the default size for a value meal. The fact is, serving sizes are normative. I don't think it's a coincidence that they correlate strongly with the rise on obesity in the US.
Here's a quick anecdote: my care is a '96 model. The cup holders can't fit any size bigger than a small from most fast food restaurants these days. Imagine the psychological impact of having all cup holders be this size. It would tend to stop and make you think, "Man, I'm drinking a *lot* of soda!".