I'm a leftist whose been exploring conservative social politics recently and this is basically exactly how I've been feeling. Like it's very difficult to ride the line between helping create a society that reinforces a message like "smoking is bad for you." But which doesn't ma ifest as just, like...going around telling random people that smoking is bad for you, which just makes you a huge buzz kill.
The same divide has had me criticizing the left on policy recently too. Like I'm 100% here for not fat-shaming people. Bullying people for being fat doesn't work, it doesn't make them lose weight and it's just plain mean. But at the same time I think our policy should be designed to reflect the fact that we shouldn't be endlessly consuming junk food and sitting around doing nothing all day.
Taxing junk food and subsidizing healthy food wouldn't be "shaming anyone" but it would make our society a lot healthier and happier yet a lot of people on the left oppose this idea. Either because they say taxing junk food is classiest because it can raise food prices for broke people who are buying the most junk food, or because they consider "the obesity epidemic" a fatphobic concept.
But where does that leave us? Slowly succumbing to the fat lazy future from Wall-E? No thank you.
I'm a leftist whose been exploring conservative social politics recently and this is basically exactly how I've been feeling. Like it's very difficult to ride the line between helping create a society that reinforces a message like "smoking is bad for you." But which doesn't ma ifest as just, like...going around telling random people that smoking is bad for you, which just makes you a huge buzz kill.
The same divide has had me criticizing the left on policy recently too. Like I'm 100% here for not fat-shaming people. Bullying people for being fat doesn't work, it doesn't make them lose weight and it's just plain mean. But at the same time I think our policy should be designed to reflect the fact that we shouldn't be endlessly consuming junk food and sitting around doing nothing all day.
Taxing junk food and subsidizing healthy food wouldn't be "shaming anyone" but it would make our society a lot healthier and happier yet a lot of people on the left oppose this idea. Either because they say taxing junk food is classiest because it can raise food prices for broke people who are buying the most junk food, or because they consider "the obesity epidemic" a fatphobic concept.
But where does that leave us? Slowly succumbing to the fat lazy future from Wall-E? No thank you.