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No because things shouldn’t be banned unless they cause unavoidable harm.
That's a bit glib. A pest control company can sell a chlorine gas spray just because it says it on the label?
Yes. People have a right to take risks.
And that's exactly why we should be talking about banning HFCS content.
You know chlorine gas is bad, and that's just a risk you think people should be allowed to take. But you clearly don't fully understand just what chlorine gas is or what it does to your body. And that notion that a the 'risk' part of 'health risk' diminishes its severity is like believing the 'thoery' part of gravitational theory means we shouldn't take that seriously.
Let me be more clear. People have a right to 100% totally fuck themselves up, to the point of grievous injury or death.