Robert Lustig argues that free will in food choices is an illusion. Eighty percent of grocery items contain added sugar, and he cites Schopenhauer: you can do what you want, but you cannot choose what you want.
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Do you really have free will to choose? Do you? First of all, if 80% of the items in the grocery store spiked with sugar, how much choice do you really have? That's number one. But we'll leave that aside because you still do have those 20% that you could choose. The concept of personal responsibility is, is predicated on the basis of free will. If there's no free will, there's no personal responsibility. So we have to go to free will first. Do you have free will? All right. The answer to that is, I think, very well stated by a famous German philosopher by named Arthur Schopenhauer. And he famously said, you are allowed to do what you want, but you are not allowed to want what you want.