EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration

[Schneibster]

See, I told you, the moment that Schneibster is called on his own lies and bullshit

So there was no financial crisis in 2008?

OK.

Oh, there was, and a huge one.

Neither that, nor Glass Steagell/Graham Leach Bliley have anything much to do with the EU banning claims that water can prevent dehydration.

We're talking about deregulation (of advertising).

We're talking about whether it's a waste of time and money to have a government bother about a claim that water can prevent dehydration. THAT regulation is fucking stupid.

That regulation is truth in advertising. Truth in advertising in the matter of a medical claim, in fact.

So you're arguing that regulating medical claims is fucking stupid.

OK. Guess you're "down with" homeopathy.

My point was we already tried that (Graham-Leach-Bliley). It was a disaster (2008 financial crisis).

That's not what is going on in the water bottle thing.

Financial claim ≅ medical claim
Regulating banks is fucking stupid ≅ regulating medical claims is fucking stupid
Financial crisis ≅ someone dies
Looks like what's going on to me. Where's your evidence?

The government still has the power to regulate product labeling and does.

They are. You're whining about it. Duh.

We're just talking about whether it's a good idea for them specifically to ban the claim that water can prevent dehydration.

So basically they should regulate labeling without actually asking doctors whether a particular claim is true or not? You're in favor of medically ignorant politicians making decisions about what's medically true? Really? Fascinating.

Nobody has made the claim that there should be no regulation of labeling at all.

You're the one whining about it. Am I supposed to ignore you?

Therefore Libertardian arguments blaming regulations are in general bullshit and need to be viewed extremely critically considering the catastrophe they caused last time.

This is a red herring. "The last time?" That's not "the last time."

No, it's hyperbole. But not by much, as I showed above with the equivalence of financial and medical.

Try again. This was a fail.