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>freedom of choice is always up to the individual
Anon, you say that, but why is everyone obese? Is it really their "free choice" to be obese? Or is it because there is a massive multi-trillion dollar advertising industry foisting products upon them, scientifically designed to make them consume?

If I put a population of lizards in a new environment, with a new ecology, and the lizards change their behavior completely and stop mating. I would look for what is different about this environment that is causing the new behavior. I wouldn't start preaching about the "free choice" of the lizards. Give me a break.
People respond to incentives. This modern economy is totally geared towards fattening everyone up like fat cows.

I've been to Texas, I've seen the dystopia. Concrete interchanges as far as the eye can see. All the buildings are ugly. Everyone huddles inside their car, which is used to take them to the store and back. They have large houses and massive entertainment systems designed to distract them from the horrible world outside their door.

But there's no reason it has to be so horrible. Image if, outside that door, there were interesting walkways, castles, parades, adventure around every corner. We are humans, we can build anything we want on this planet. We can build an interesting world. We don't have to be degraded like this.