Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
Your diet is what you eat and drink. So I do think it relates.
Hardly

It's like the outcry over the banning of trans fat. "the government is trying to ban tasty food!". But actually they are banning an industrial product that is used because it's cheap and convenient not because it tastes better.

This is not about banning foods because of the taste or because the government thinks its business is to intervene in peoples diets. It's genuinely about the alcohol poisoning issue.

It's easy to have an idea of how drunk you are by keeping track of how much you drink. What, we can't count and have to determine our sobriety using self-applied intoxication tests?
A second issue is people thinking they can drive. But the main issue is that the products are deemed deceptive. That's what you're skipping.

The government has no place deciding how we should be drinking. Just because its possible to overindulge is no excuse for a nationwide ban.
No age limit either? And it isn't about overindulging.


And consumers can't choose whether or not to buy beverages that contain alcohol and caffeine like they choose to mix drinks themselves? There is no real difference, a fact that 'answer' neatly ignores.

CR
If you acknowledge that consumers can mix the drinks themselves then what was all that about "the government deciding how we drink". They are only deciding what we can buy conveniently prepackaged.

I have actually not even examined the science behind the risk claims. It could all be a scare. I thought you had information to that point actually.


More generally though, I think you do a disservice to the true spirit of wanting to be free from government interference when you use this kind of rhetoric in defense of 24 ounce blue raspberry 12.0% abv energy drinks...if they are wrong then it is purely for the principle and the slippery slope nature.