Regulating Our Sugar Habit

I think this article was written by a crazy man. Let me sum it for you. There isn't enough government regulation in our daily lives, so the government should start controlling how much sugar we eat. Soda should be illegal for anyone under seventeen. Sugar is hurting us, blah blah blah, public health crisis, etc. I was absolutely shocked.
Rhetorically, this guy doesn't make much sense to me. He starts off describing why everyone hates Rhonda Storms, an activist who has been fighting to limit the consumption of unhealthy foods. What possible reason would he have by describing why she is so hated? I sure don't know. There is a little bit of rational reasoning when he talks about food stamps; if people are wasting their food stamps on candy, they aren't starving, and that government money would be better spent helping people who need it rather than hurting those who don't. The rest is nonsense, and this guy isn't hitting the question where it would be controversial. We all know that sugar is bad for us. We all know that we would have longer, healthier lives if we ate better foods. We aren't eating junk because we're uneducated, we're eating it because we don't care enough about our health to eat any better than we do. And that's none of the government's business, thank you very much. This guy didn't mention the moral implications of regulating our everyday lives like this. He only talked about health, which isn't really the issue here. Overall, I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded by this article. There was some logic in the food stamp part, but that argument would have been more effective if the author hadn't filled the article with craziness and cited politicians whom everyone hates.

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