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Is universal healthcare important enough to cede control over what we put into our own bodies?

That's the only important question. As far as I'm concerned the answer is definitionally no, and I live in the UK where we arguably have it.

It's an endless rabbit hole of authoritarianism. Ban cigarettes, ban sugar in high concentration, ban fast food, mandate vaccines. If we find out that taking an aspirin a day improves health outcomes - mandate that too. Ban unprotected sex - just use phone cameras to enforce it or whatever.

There is literally no end to it because if we only take into account the one metric "does this thing affect aggregate health outcomes" you can justify banning anything.

I'm sure someone will read this and get grumpy that I've mentioned vaccination. I have three, they're ace.

The idea of authoritarian policy is that you don't have a choice; your opinion is truly irrelevant. I don't think its' proponents often hold that in the forefront of their mind, they only focus on "well, right now I'm on the popular side" or whatever.