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Re:The Ocean is Broken (2013) by pekk on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @01:26PM (#7185659)
The subject was that palm oil involves dead orangutans. Does sugar frosting do that too, or are we changing the subject to how sugar is bad? If you overeat sugar frosting, it's your diabetes, not a negative externality.
Re:The Ocean is Broken (2013) by dredmorbius on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @04:23PM (#7186898)
Diabetes in a modern technological society with socialized healthcare (and all modern healthcare systems are to some extent socialized) does impose negative externalities.

As do many other diseases. TDR-TB is one of my, um, favorites in this regard: http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1wc86m/the_nast...