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> It is still a medical treatment added to the water supply, and sets a dangerous precedent. This same power if unchecked has the potential for great harm.

Fluoridation started in US water supplies 80 (eighty) years ago. The people who set that "dangerous precendent" are all dead now. Seems like we've done OK with that "unchecked potential for great harm".

I mean, come on. Even as a libertarian argument this seems tone deaf in a month where we're literally rolling back the fourth amendment.



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