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  • Telling me I can’t add sugar to my own water is bad.

    I’m not sure what real world thing you made this analogy for? But this is a straw man, because nowhere are you told you can’t add sugar to your food.
    You may be told you shouldn’t, because it’s unhealthy. But you can still add sugar even to commercially sold food in amounts that by European standards make it actually illegal to call it food. Making it either cake or candy.
    American Fruity loops is an example that is illegal to call food in EU because of too much sugar. Apart from a number of additives that are illegal too in EU. You could still sell it in EU, but not as a breakfast cereal.

    You should not be unhappy if sugar is regulated in food you purchase. And you definitely can put more on it at home if you really want candy instead of food. Sweetener is a cheap way for the industry to make something taste batter, despite having extremely low quality.


  • Yes regulation help protect people from getting ill having accidents and even dying due to lots of stupid preventable shit too.
    And of course that also help the economy despite it’s only a secondary effect.
    Things like fire regulation, car safety and of course health regulation in food.
    These are all things that protect us every day, but most people are completely oblivious about all the ways regulation help. And only focus on the potential bit of extra paperwork, and a bit of extra cost, that they are ignorant about is recouped in benefits to all that outweigh the cost multiple times.

    What we need is not less regulation, but better regulation!







  • Seems to me that Islam is discriminating strongly against women, and that could absolutely be a factor to prevent this sick culture from being abandoned.
    I know there are Muslims who are good people, but I don’t think the religion is helping.
    I knew many Muslims when I lived in Copenhagen, from many different countries, and common for the men were that they were way more discriminating against women than is normally acceptable among cultural Danes. They also commonly claimed that the women preferred it that way! For instance regarding very stereotypical strong gender roles.
    I also don’t believe the honor thing is without heavy influence from religion, and religion is helping preserve these medieval standards in modern times.

    I know there are Muslims that are more modern and more moral, and just like most Christians have abandoned ancient doctrines that are clearly bad.
    It just seems to me that Islam has not progressed away from such practices as much as Christianity generally has.
    For instance by far the most Muslims still believe apostasy is a sin that should be punished. In a modern society that is unacceptable.