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Rather than taking choice away, we should be educating people on what the best choice is and letting them make it themselves.

Brush your teeth in the morning and in the evening. Standard dental hygiene - If a person can be an obedient worker they can probably brush their teeth twice a day. If they cant, they have bigger problems to sort out.



> educating people on what the best choice is and letting them make it themselves.

If we go that way, we should have some sort of Department, to make sure Of the Education being consistent.


This is a fair point, and in modern times, where we have good public health education it makes more sense to take this approach.

However this comes with the weighty caveat that there are public groups that actively agitate against public health campaigns.

On balance I think defluoridation makes sense where you have good public health communication.


Is that not just a passive form of putting fluoride in the water though? Government is still spending money but without the desired outcome of having a healthier fitter population.




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