The Center for Hysteria in the Public Interest says Ice Cream is Unhealthy!

Hey, mine doesn’t! That means I can sue, right?

No, it doesn’t.

Care to elaborate? That certainly sounds inconsistent with what I quoted from you in my last post.

Don’t confuse Libertaria (my personally prefered implimentation of libertarianism) with libertarianism as a philosophy of ethics. It is easy to conceive of libertarian formulations wherein full disclosure is considered by the populace to be a guarantee against initiated fraud (coercion).

OK, but who enforces that disclosure? If in Libertaria someone wants to sell a food product with no nutritional disclosures, what then?

Honestly, I think it’s mostly just a matter of the difference between legislation and arbitration. In Libertaria (again this is a particular implementation that you’re asking about), if you believe that an ice-cream shop has misrepresented its product as safe (a reasonable conclusion if they deliberately withhold information about its nutritional content), then you may charge them with coercion and see whether your community agrees with you. I think you dislike Libertaria partly out of habit, and mostly because I am such a poor expositor. I honestly think, from what I’ve read from you, that you would really like it there. :slight_smile:

Now what happens if the shop is serving squid flavoured ice-cream with extra squid? Choking hazard or coronary hazard?

:slight_smile:

I’m afraid that the Giant Squids might have to deal with the man who owns all the water on earth. :wink:

It might be possible to somehow beam out nutritional information via lighthouses, too.

But if I buy all the land around your lighthouse, can I sue you for emitting photons in my quantum field?

It’s an interesting legal tangle–I’m only using the photons via a temporary lease from G, the greatest possible existence fellow who owns them in the first (and last) place.

Yeah but can we get him in court to prove he owns them. :wink:

Sure. After all, He’s the Perfect Libertarian. :smiley:

Lib: I understand your reasoning.

Then shame on you for so grossly mischaracterizing it. If I thought you really didn’t understand what I meant and weren’t just distorting my remarks for your own smug and self-seeking purposes, I’d have a lot more patience with you.

<pauses from licking the last bits of Chunky Monkey from the container> What was that?

<checks ingredients list> Contains diced monkey…

<faints>

Well, duh.

It tastes good, is made from milk fat and sugar, with a wide assortment of incredibly tasty but bad-for-you additives like, say, cookie dough, and this is a surprise? Just give me my damn cone and stay the fuck out of my freezer.

And now, it has been discovered that drinking hydrochloric acid may cause heartburn…

Smug? Self-seeking? Y’know, people eventually become their ad hominems. That really wasn’t much of a step up from “Bullshit” and “Pfui”.

For shit’s sake. They’re taking all the fun out of food.

Gee, a company misrepresenting its products, claiming something’s non-fat when it’s not.

I can’t imagine why anyone would want to know that! :rolleyes: