Japanese law requires citizens to meet waist-line standards?

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What if I told you that in the world today, a country had laws which mandated limits for the weight of their citizens????

> The law requires the waistlines of certain demographics of citizens to be measured once every year.
> The law mandates that citizens not meeting the government's requirements would be forced to attend weight-management classes.
> The law provides for financial penalties for citizens who continue to fail the measurements.

The country I am speaking of by the way, is Japan.

Questions:

Would you consider this opressive and unjust, or do you think such laws are fitting and acceptable?

Do you think that government should even have the power to create/enforce such laws?

Do you think that any health benefit from this could outweigh the severe blow to personal liberties that such laws have?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/world/asia/13fat.html?no_interstitial
 
I saw that. If that makes it to the US, imagine how many of us will put through to the firing squad! Just a government doing what they do best, legislating lifestyles.
 
apparently, japanese males are expected to have a 33.5 inch waiste line... that's skinny for a man!
What if the man is really healthy and has buff abs
What if the man has a wide bone structure
what if the man wasn't measured properly (you are supposed to suck in when your waist is being measured)

1) the government should go about a different way. The waisteline law is plain stuppid. Anyways if it's just once a year... a person could eat like a pig and then the month before his waistline check - he'll starve himself. It wil also force people tto lose weight FAST so they don't get penalized. that's not healthy.The gov. should ban mcdonalds and fast food and soft drinks. The gov should insteadleave the desision up to the doctor wheter the person is healthy or not.

2) The gov shhould have the power to enforce such laws... however i strongly disaggree with that particular law. Now if it's obvious the person is obese, unfit, unhealhty, and has a lot of health problems heading their way.. then yes the person should be forced to exercise and cut out all garbage.

3) the governemtn shouldn't have to be your mommy and daddy.. but people need that apparently b/c they can't even take care of themselves. how could youconsider being overweight as a personal liberty?

In conclusion, I beleive the government should enforce some weight/health law but this law is a stupid idea. This law is a good idea:
Obese people shouldn't be able to reproduce b/c it puyts unhealthy genes in the gene pool and then the gov will have to worry about the next generation in terms of health care.
 
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