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Here is the problem--inevitable, actually--with any sort of "behavioral mandates" which appear to be scientifically well-founded (albeit with edge or exceptional cases perhaps).
While Leftists seem to want to love to rant about how "stupid" and "unscientific" Republicans are--and no doubt, a lot of them probably are, since in any given population 50% will be below average in intelligence, common sense, education, and everything else--that's the nature of normal distributions--
--a far far disproportionately greater number of "below average" people dwell amongst the Left's favored constituencies.
Racial minorities, the poor, the disaffected, the illegal immigrants, the oppressed.
Right? They have less if any privileges, less money, less wealth, less silver spoon, less education, less opportunities, less EVERYTHING. (According to Leftist dogma, anyway.)
ANY "behavioral regulations" imposed by the government will therefore negatively disparately impact (on a proportional to population basis) these Lefitst-favored groups.
And it is dogma on the Left that "disparate impact" = "unlawful discrimination." Because systemic racism. Or something.
If you want to for example, address obesity by imposing behavioral controls on what people can purchase & consume--especially in regards to use of government benefits such as SNAP--those behavioral controls will disparately and disproportionately impact the Left's favorite constituences. The poor; minorities; illegal immigrants; and so forth.
But according to your Leftist dogma, disparate impact = illegal discrimination.
So, how do your leftists resolve the dilemma?
You don't. You simply focus on cases where you can attribute (wrongly or correctly, doesn't matter) some "bad behavior" to presumed "stupid Republicans." Yet you ignore things like young black men disproportionately murdering each other in places like Chicago. You refuse to impose behavioral controls on young black men in Chicago because that would be "racist."
Go ahead and impose whatever behavioral controls you want. It will disparately impact your favored constituencies.
Poor people are obese? It's not their fault, they have no agency. It's systemic racism's fault. It's not their fault they live in a food desert (caused by constant rioting and looting and failure of Democrat run cities to enforce basic civil order) leading to the grocery chains just closing up and leaving entirely.
Dunk on "stupid Republicans" all you want--your constituencies are stupider.
