Argumentative Essay On Soda And Soda

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Soda, Soda, Soda

In the past couple years people all around the nation, whether it's in New York City or an 8th Grade classroom in Michigan, people have been pressed with the question, whether the New York Soda Ban, is a good thing, improving health, or if there is a larger issue. Is this decision showing evidence of the Government interfering with our basic civil liberties? In three writing pieces in particular, they show three very different points of view on this very contradicting topic. In Three cheers for the Nanny state, the author talks about how in 1859 John Stuart Mill wrote, “The only justifiable reason to interfere in someone's freedom of action was to prevent harm to others.” But that is not true. Our minds have their own way …show more content…

They also have opinions along the same lines, and they think certain things go with both sides, In Three cheers for the nanny state , the argumentative essay that believes in the soda ban, is always talking about how we should just go with the flow, and clearly understand that if a law is too painful it wouldn’t be a law, it also makes us feel belittled in the face of ourselves, it talks about how we all see ourselves as these rational beings but that's not true how we all need to understand that we gave a little bit of that up in the beginning of the upbringing of the government we know today, it was also the only essay that was featured in my perspectives that was for the ban, but what one may found interesting is that all three of the essays included facts about smoking, also two of the three essays talked about slippery slopes, another thing that seemed strange was that the two essays that agreed that the soda ban was wrong, took two very different approaches when arguing their claim, Ban the Ban, mostly talked about how the ban will affect everyone near and far, about how the choices of what you want are now taken away, and then Sodas a problem but talks about how the law is flawed, and how Mayor bloomberg was in the wrong when making this law, these three essays were not only different but similar, and that's what made each one

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