Instead of regulating everyone's sugar intake

[Major Nikon]

189. I have no problem with regulation

I just don't really see much good that can come from this. For one thing, there's no evidence this supposed solution is going to work and may actually have the effect of making things worse, as monolithic knee-jerk solutions to complex problems often do. For another, lets say this actually does somehow work by either completely fixing our diabetes problem, making a dent in it, or something in between. Now we've proved that a health problem, however large, can be mitigated by implementing restrictions on the entire populace at the consumer level by simply accepting small incremental changes to our civil liberties. So rather than trying to change bad habits at the child level where they began with things like more emphasis on nutrition and exercise in schools, we simply restrict the choices available to adults.

While I'm not diametrically opposed to all infringements of civil liberties, I just don't see the infringement of civil liberties as an appropriate first response, especially when there's not much reason to believe it will have any affect at all and could conceivably create more problems. Whether this works or not, it simply opens the flood gates for all sorts of restrictions imposed on the entire populace regardless of whether they are at risk or not.