TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Casey Neistat, writing for the New York Times opinion page:

“All we’re doing here is educating,” Mayor Bloomberg said. “It forces you to see the difference.” Limiting the serving size forces people to consider how much they’re ingesting. Earlier this year the Center for Consumer Freedom ran a full-page ad in The Times saying that “New Yorkers need a Mayor, not a Nanny.” With 58 percent of adults in New York City overweight or obese and 5,800 deaths a year in the city because of obesity, it is evident that some people just aren’t responsible enough to feed themselves. This lack of nutritional responsibility affects everyone — obesity costs the city $4 billion a year in direct medical costs. A nanny is just what New York City, and the rest of America, needs.

If Neistat believes that people are incapable of feeding themselves, and therefore government should decide for us, then I’m not sure why people should be able to choose their leaders, choose where they work and in what field, or even what kind of products they should purchase. Those decisions are monumentally more difficult—so why should people who, by Neistat’s argument, are incapable of properly choosing what to eat, have the right to make them? Why shouldn’t Neistat’s helpful nanny point them in the right direction with those choices, too?