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wiseowise10/12/20243 repliesview on HN

How do people move around cities? They teleport?

Where there’s a will there’s a way.

> constant advertising of junk food & alcohol.

Nobody is forcing you to eat those.


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ruraljuror10/12/2024

> Nobody is forcing you to eat those.

No, I think force feeding junk food is pretty rare but that seems like a straw man.

Consider children. Their brains are not fully developed and they have little agency in determining the food they have access to. Childhood obesity is on the rise. So blame the children’s choices?

Ok, sure, blame the parents. I agree of course it is the parents responsibility, but the cards are often stacked against parents by big corporations with government subsidies (in the us).

It’s really weird to me to argue that this is completely a problem at the individual level and not a social one—and I see no other way to interpret your comment.

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partomniscient10/13/2024

>Nobody is forcing you to eat those.

No, but social conditioning normalises it and those in the lower socioeconomic areas of living buy the cheapest rather than most nutritional food and are way less likely to read informative articles or posts about healthy eating. It really is heavily influenced by a lack of supply of healthy affordable food.

borski10/12/2024

> Where there’s a will there’s a way.

Yeah? Even if I’m disabled, I should got for a walk, just because I want to?

Pretending the world is binary is a fun exercise, but it is always untrue.

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