[dragonwriter]

> The question is not whether they were notified or not. The question is whether you believe that you yourself, as a taxpayer who funds the FDA, have the right to order people what to spend their money on and how to live their lives.

If I didn't believe that, I couldn't believe in the existence of government at all, which is nothing but a means by which the people whom the government works for direct the people who are subject to it (largely overlapping sets) what to spend their money on and how to live their lives.

So, yes, I'll agree that that question -- which is equivalent to "do you believe government should exist at all" -- is a threshold question here. But I don't really think its the interesting question here.

> Why should it be in your power to take away someone else's freedom in the name of safety this person might not even want?

The only "freedom" even arguably being denied here is 23andMe's freedom to market their product with particular claims. The issue is not whether they can sell the product, but the manner in which they are marketing it.

[snitko]

The manner in which they are marketing it is entirely their own business. If american people are smart enough to choose a politician to lead the country - and political campaigns are full of lies and deceit - then how come they are not smart enough to tell whether a marketing campaign of a product that has the potential to directly affect their life - is honest enough? How come no agency oversees what a politician says during a campaign and then just suspends this politician immediately if he does anything out of line?