All of you who criticized Bloomberg over the Soda ban ... consider this

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115. As Kristofferson wrote, Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

and if you look at HIS meaning, he agrees with me.

Freedom is doing what one wants regardless of anything else

Having a family though or friends, or responsiblity means one is tied to other's wants and needs, and one is not free to do reckless things as it directly reflects others freedoms and libertys.

to use my own case, I have a family and kids.
I could have continued on the binge course I was one and dropped dead.
Therefore creating pain and sorrow and hardship.

NO freedom is not being reckless.
Freedom is thinking of others and putting the others before oneself

Freedom is not wanting kids/grandkids to be so fat that they have childhood diseases and never reach adulthood.

Obesity is as bad as any addiction

And when someone realizes it and someone is there to help, one thanks their lucky stars that person is there to help them, one day at a time.

And my personal addictions were ironically enough Coke and Cheese.
And eating and drinking endlessly thousands of calories of both a day was making me beholden to both of them.

BTW-here's a great song, one of my favorite.
While I am not an alchoholic, I am a cheese and coke cola addict (and that is not satire).
Took me alot of years to stand up and admit it.
Now I have my freedom. Free from that.
And I thank people like Mike Bloomberg.(and indirectly Chris Christie, seeing him was like a mirror. And less than a year ago, seeing the two together for some event put things in perfect context.
And I thank Ryan Shafer too, whether he knows it or not, he was a major inspiration.Though I am thankful to not have diabetes or even prediabetes, there but for some sort of luck, those numbers were never bad for me. But about a year ago, watched something and what an inspiration he is and it resonated.

(btw, your using the NRA soundbytes on Mr. Bloomberg show me all I need to know. It shows me the issue of wellness is not the one you are arguing. It shows me you are arguing some other issues of the Mayor of NY, most not even correct, but all 100% irrelevant to this.)

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reminds me that friends don't let friends drive drunk.
Even if it means taking a persons freedom to drive away.
Or friends helping someone in a cult get out of it, because a person can't do it themselves.
Freedom means having great friends and support groups.
Because if one is dead, one has ZERO freedom at all.

Someone who is drunk might rail and say, you authoritarian, give me my keys and then get into a head on collision with a bus and kill 50 people.
And taking those 50 people's freedoms away.

BTW, your line about stop and frisk is 100% lie.

Have a great day. Days are so much better for me now.All that energy, and it don't come from sugar highs.
One day at a time. Used to be something I thought was corny.
Now I see the light and say it often.

btw, it's 5am, off to the club. See you in a few hours.
(in the past I probably already would have had 3 20 ounce real soda.)
Now all I have had so far is a glass of water.