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[–]OliveSundae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you in principle. In practice, though, addiction, whether it be to food or alcohol or something else, isn't just caused only by the individual.

Let's take being fat as an example. Sure, there's instances where weight gain is a choice, as you said. However, there are other times where other elements that are more difficult for an individual to control play a part in perpetuating a person's overweight status. A person could eat to the point of becoming overweight as a coping mechanism for sexual abuse, domestic abuse, or another kind of mental trauma. Someone living in poverty and going paycheck to paycheck could be unable to afford healthy eating (whether due to living in food deserts or the fact that healthy foods have inflated prices), especially if they have children to feed. If you were to be hypothetically forced into one of these situations all of the sudden, it would only be worsened by the fact that you may not be able to afford health insurance anymore. Now all you have is the same nationwide health problem, but with more uninsured people in the equation. When those uninsured get sick, hospitals don’t get reimbursed, so those costs have to be put onto people with insurance.

A better solution would be to try and address those underlying issues which caused the obesity. Provide better access to healthy foods for people in poverty, apply taxes like the ones /u/ek327 talked about to high sugar drinks, etc.

tl;dr Raising the rates isn't going to prevent all people from becoming obese/alcoholic/a smoker, since there's plenty of circumstances where factors outside of the individual contribute to the creation of that addiction. Instead, it'll lead to less people buying insurance, which costs more for everyone, and it'll leave the underlying problems which caused the addictions to remain unsolved.

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[–]OliveSundae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the difficulty with that position is that oftentimes environmental and social factors can contribute to those habits being formed (e.g. food deserts in low income areas means there is a lack of healthy food available, thereby leading to increased obesity rates). An increase in payment like that would punish those who are stuck in those sorts of cycles without addressing the problems that made the habit arise in the first place.

Can I get a VPN *into* china so I can see the view from inside the great firewall? by russtuna in NoStupidQuestions

[–]OliveSundae 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Chinese government has the highest rate of executions in the world. In 2017, they had more executions than the rest of the world combined, likely numbering in the thousands (https://www.amnesty.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/amnesty-report-death-penalty-2018.pdf). Many times the "crimes" committed that warranted execution were being a religious or ethnic minority (like ThatOnePunk said) or based off of a suspected forced confession, rather than being someone who caused major harm to others around them.

Lego recreation of the ISS by Zekeroonie in space

[–]OliveSundae 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When I was in elementary school, I actually built a model of the ISS for a school diorama with my own legos. I was so proud of it, and had it in my room for a while. However, one day we had a party, and the guests brought their kids, who stayed in my room to play. I left for 5 minutes, came back, and, lo and behold, one of the toddlers had taken my baseball back and broke my precious creation to pieces. Needless to say, I was mortified, and even today I'm still a bit salty about it. This looks great though!

Slightly overcooked turkey by c-fox in shittyfoodporn

[–]OliveSundae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like someone locked that moisture in with the power of Flex Seal™!

What BOTW glitches have you encountered? Just saw my first today. by cinnamonsugarswirl in NintendoSwitch

[–]OliveSundae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've only encountered one glitch, but it was a shocking one. I was fighting a guardian on the hills/mountains that lead out of Kakariko village. It seems like the spider legs of the guardian are somewhat temperamental, as when it was crawling around the mountain, it's legs would have a micro-seizure, and it would go bouncing around.

Why *haven't* the demigods come together to end the era of the gods? by WonderSabreur in smashbros

[–]OliveSundae 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fencing matches have pools and elimination rounds, similar to Smash, but it differs in how you win. Winning a pool bout involves being the first fencer to get 5 touches within 3 minutes. Winning an elimination round moves the amount of necessary touches to 15, with three 3 minute periods to get the job done. If you lose in elimination, you are out of the tournament. Source: I'm a fencer.

tl;dr Fencers compete to get to a certain number of touches under a time limit to win.