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Comment by AYBABTME | Hacker News Reader

How about not drinking pop? I know a "just change your behaviour" response isn't fashionable, but in the case of pop... it's a completely harmful and unnecessary product.

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necessity is a wonderful sounding criteria when being applied to things you don’t care for, and ghastly when applied to things you enjoy.

we could sooner justify the elimination of all alcohol products on these grounds than soda. sugary beverages just have calories; alcohol has got the calories along with liver damage, alcoholism, drunk driving etc.

Also if horribly unhealthy sugary drinks were banned, who would sponsor professional sports? They’ve already banned the tobacco companies from sponsoring them like in the good old days.

I'm not suggesting banning anything, or taking any position as to whether pop should or shouldn't be banned.

How about enjoying life? I weigh in at a 130lbs at 5'9", and have the body and skin of a woman much younger. Moderation, not abstinence, is where the happiest life is.

What are you going to do when she asks for it back?

Lucky for me, I'm the sculpture and the sculptor.

edit: Disambiguated a word.

You can smoke, do crack and do all sorts of provably harmful things in moderation too. I guess the question is whether all pleasurable things are pleasurable enough to justify the harm they cause. Maybe to you, pop is. I'd say that empirical evidence shows that pop is a clear negative to society, is a recent addition to human diet and isn't universally consumed (so isn't actually necessary to anyone's life), so it seems like it's not far fetched to believe that it's probably not a bad idea to write it off our lives.

Yea, that's kinda what free will is all about. I've made that decision. You're allowed to do whatever you want hun, but abstinence is a fools ideology. You have one life, and the end isn't the good bit.

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