Are you as sick of this kind of nanny state advocacy as I am? So called “experts,”—who I have come to believe are the cause of most society’s problems—are now proclaiming obesity to be more dangerous than terrorism. From the story: World governments are focusing too much on fighting terrorism while obesity and other “lifestyle diseases” are killing millions more people, an international conference heard Monday. Overcoming deadly factors such as poor diet, smoking and a lack of exercise should take top priority in the fight against a growing epidemic of chronic disease, legal and health experts said. Global terrorism was a real threat but posed far less risk than obesity, type two diabetes and smoking-related illnesses, US law professor Lawrence Gostin said at the Oxford Health Alliance Summit here. “Ever since September 11 we’ve been lurching from one crisis to the next which has really frightened the public,” Gostin told AFP later. “While we’ve been focussing so much attention on that we’ve had this silent epidemic of obesity that’s killing millions of people around the world and we’re devoting very little attention to it and a negligible amount of money.”
Give me a break! Stop the hysteria! This kind of inapt moral equivalency not only diminishes the true dangers of terrorism—which is mass murder most foul and could become genocide if the terrorists ever get nukes or a deadly microbe—but it also promotes the idea that the state has the obligation to force us to live lifestyles acceptable to “the experts.” I am not against educating people to live healthy lifestyles, of course. But this is flat out ridiculous.
P.S. Does it seem to you that these experts really want money transferred from stopping Osama and into their pockets so they can micromanage the lives of billions of people? Now, that’s power!
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