Freedom to Blame Disguised as Freedom to Choose #lustig #food #obesity
24 May 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube video (May 24, 2024) by Dr. Ron Najafi examining how the rhetoric of "personal responsibility" has been used historically to shift blame from industries to individuals. The speaker attributes the invention and strategic use of the personal-responsibility frame to the tobacco industry (linking it to legal defenses such as assumption of risk), connects that framing to modern policies like the “cheeseburger bill,” and raises the question of whether toxic environments (e.g., for food/obesity) can be changed without governmental or societal intervention.










