Britain to Lojack fatties in war on obesity
Ok, the title is a bit hyperbolic but in Britain is now promoting a new scheme to tag and track people in an effort to improve health by targeting obesity. In addition to the tags, which track calories and exertion, marketing campaigns and fitness facilities will be deployed to round out the effort. They feel this is needed to stop an “obesity time-bomb.”
Colin Waine of the National Obesity Forum spouts:
A lot of people think it’s a nanny state idea … it’s like trying to dry out a drug addict.
I would seem to me that given the propensity for exceptionally petty enforcement of council edits with zero tolerance tactics that British government at all levels is responsible for the declining health and intellectual pursuits of the British public.
It is impossible to track daily UK news without reading of another bureaucrat working to control and confine someone for an infraction that is essentially petty. If Britons seem be facing a rising lack of self-control it might just be because the Labour government* of the past many years has created an environment where the ability to take individual responsibility has been continually eroded.
I would suggest that a better course than Lojacks, child abduction, and excessive school room regulation would be to have people take back personal responsibility rather than attempt to utterly remove their choices.
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