International Law

Fighting Fat and Fraud

How is obesity similar to being defrauded? Well, just as nobody deliberates that their food or drink is so good that they want to weigh a 265 lbs to accommodate their taste buds, so nobody deliberately writes a cheque to a fraud criminal.

But in both cases, the prevention of obesity and the prevention of fraud, rely upon an appeal to the deliberative process - dieting and due diligence respectively. If the deliberative process wasn't in play in the first place, why do we suspect that by addressing the deliberative process will bring about the necessary changes in diet or financial investment?

This is the subject of this interesting video, which is about an hour long, featuring Professor David Just from Cornell.

Full post as published by Misleading Advertising Law on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).