Democracy is not an excuse for the government overstepping its bounds and "tyranny of the majority" is still tyranny. If the majority of people in an area think masturbation should bw outawed, that doesn't mean it should be, because it infringes on peoples' rights. If the majority of people in a town don't want to let in blacks, they can't make that a law. Hell., if the majority of people in a town think prostitution or drugs should be illegal, they still shouldn;'t be able to make that law (even though they have) because those infringe on peoples' rights. The government doesn't have a right to control what adults may or may not eat. They argue they shiould regulate kids' food because kids cannot make their own decisions. By using this same ratuionale to control what the poor may eat, they are treating the poor like kids and saying they need to be "protected" from their own desires. That's oaternalistic. hell, thgey do the same thing with people (overwhelmingly the poor) who use drugs. They try to save them from themselves (by throwing them in jail, yeah i don't get it either) and as "The Wire" has shown, this has become a ar against the poor, born of the paternalistic desire to protec tthem form themselves becuase tey're too stupid to run their own lives. And now, the govenrment of LA has said McDonald's is just as bad as crack, so the poor have even less freedom! Fucking country!