Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water

Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by danielmarkbruce on Sunday March 30, 2025 @06:21PM (#43528293)

What rights of minorities have been targeted? If the only example is trans rights, it's dumb to think it's a simple issue of trampled rights. There are two competing sets of rights, you grant one set you take away from the other. There isn't a good solution.

If you think all the people advocating for small government must be fools or hypocrites, you don't understand the issues an any depth.

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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by Xelynega on Sunday March 30, 2025 @06:49PM (#43528526)

Why do trans people not count as a minority being targetted?

I'm curious, what rights are "granted" by making it illegal for doctors to prescribe puberty blocks when they as a medical professional and a child's parents as their guardian agree they're the best medical course of action for a child?

Saying "it's about granting and taking away" like rights are some zero-sum game feels like it's ignoring the complexity of these issues more than what I'm saying.

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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by danielmarkbruce on Sunday March 30, 2025 @07:25PM (#43528826)

Nobody said "doesn't count". You are disingenuous.

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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by Xelynega on Sunday March 30, 2025 @07:45PM (#43529012)

> What rights of minorities have been targeted? If the only example is trans rights, it's dumb to think it's a simple issue of trampled rights

So it's not an issue of trampled rights if it's just trans rights, yet you can't come up with a reason that trans rights need to be restricted to ensure freedom of others. And it's being disingenuous to call you out for saying trans rights don't matter when you say this...

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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by danielmarkbruce on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:31PM (#43529317)

Example: trans rights in sports. You let them play, you take away the rights to a fair playing field for women born women. You don't let them play, you take away their right to play sport. There isn't a good solution.

You knew the example. You know why society restricts people below 18 from all kinds of things. You are the very definition of disingenuous.

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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by Xelynega on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:09PM (#43529595)

Trans people playing on the sporting team they want to is not "rights", and your focus on it to deflect from the very real issue I brought up is telling...

I don't mind being called "the very definition of disingenuous" by you.

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