Again you’re missing the point and giving them way too much credit. Do you honestly think these people think that far? People can know incredibly horrible things are going on…they can even see them on tv…and still not give a shit. That is of course until it happens to them. I guarantee you the minute some idiot defending the TSA has his 95-year-old, 104-pound grandmother dying of leukemia forced by the TSA to remove her adult diaper for a patdown, he’ll change his pro-TSA tune. Same goes for a pro-business regulation advocate. The minute that guy tries to do anything on his own…maybe help his kids open a lemonade stand…and runs face first into the wall of the state, that “pro” turns to an “anti” pretty darn quick.
But it’s usually never until someone is personally inconveninced do they care. That’s what “First they came” is all about. That’s why the growth of the state is so easy. People face virtually zero direct risk (at least none they can see, and certainly not immediate) from touting their nonsense opinions, but they gain an immediate satisfaction from acting like they know more than others.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. There is no possible way you could argue negative affects of poor nutrition habits of the typical know-it-all American are immediately evident…even to the person himself. I also guarantee you if you were to walk up to a 350 lb. girl and say “I could make you weigh 120 lbs. in two days…all due to fat loss and in a totally healthy way, but you have to accept what I’m telling you about nutrition and eat what I tell you” and have her reply “No thanks, I know what I’m doing.”
You’re talking about things that people have been conditioned to believe are bad for them. Again, never underestimate the power of indoctrination.
You’re seriously going to argue that people are recognizably and measurably harmed in the short term, with those effects being felt virtually immediately by the person himself, from not taking ephedrine?
Do you understand anything about human beings? You maximize your ego by doing whatever makes you feel superior at that moment. Are you seriously going to argue someone doesn’t get an ego boost from purporting to tell other people what’s what? I don’t care what would make someone justifiably have an ego…and these people certainly don’t care what is “risky”. Not to mention, where is this risk? What direct personal harm does someone face for claiming “we need a bigger stimulus”? We’re talking about why idiots do what they do and you’re trying to say “well, no that couldn’t be the reason they do that because that is illogical and ‘risky’.”