An Analysis Of Karin Klein's Soda Ban

Karin Klein, the author of Soda’s a Problem but… has presented the most convincing argument concerning the New York soda ban compared to the other two authors. The other two authors don’t defend their opinions as well as Klein does. Klein’s argument is more persuasive seeing that it relies less on emotion and more on facts, the reasoning is more logical than the other two arguments, and due to it doing a better job of defending itself. Overall, the authors of Ban the Ban! and Three Cheers for the Nanny State do not present as much compelling evidence as is shown in Soda’s a Problem but…. Oftentimes, the other two arguments veer somewhat off course from their original points and lead to a topic that isn’t heavily relevant to their original
the author states, “People might think it is it important because it is just soda, but it is so much more than that- it is about freedom and the freedom to make your own decisions about what you do and what you put into your bodies.” The reasoning the author uses in the excerpt is flawed since she is comparing restrictions on the amount of soda a person can buy to a basic human right and saying that the restrictions are equivalent to taking away one's freedom which is not a very reasonable comparison. Moreover, she states, “I hope you will all start to speak up about this issue or, before you know it, it won’t be the ‘land of the free and home of the brave’ anymore. One day in the not too distant future we are all going to wake up in the land of ‘Big Brother’ with a list of things we can and cannot do, eat, drink, say, and so on, and we’ll be wondering how we got there.” This reasoning isn’t sound considering that it jumps from large sodas being restricted in New York to saying that the government would be regulating everything which is a considerable leap and provided with no evidence to back it up. In Three Cheers for the Nanny State, the reasoning is sound, but relies too heavily on discrediting others rather than proving the point. In Soda’s a Problem but…, Klein’s reasoning is that because there are too many inconsistencies within the ban, it’s not a very advantageous law and is redundant if people could easily avoid it if they wished. She supports her point by pointing out errors in the law and how it was essentially useless since people could sidestep it and considering “Soda consumption is already slipping