OPINION
How Power Often Takes Over Dietary choices
Tue Feb 11 2025
For many years the choices we make about diet seemed personal. Over time however that idea gets challenged . What happens when a choice about food consumption is not made by individuals? What role does state involvement play? Who decides what choices are?
Let's not make any mistake political prisoners struggled with states over diet.
Instead of nourishment or just a choiceimagine having to eat and simply survive that sentence.
It is through force feeding that politicians and government authorities make the call on weather an individual will continue living or cease to exist.
This act can be seen as traumatic and extreme thus proving difficult to justify within civil society
As for power and control, every force feeding act fits narrow perceptions of acceptance.
Three maingroups who've challenged this the islamicists and British suffragettes
As for political prisoners, they tend to go about things with clear intention.
They usually have a sense of defiance. It naturally arises as they seek to resist the state.
Force feeding is not something they have to do.
They can determine their consequences clearly. Doing so, they can achieve
specific results like exposure or holding people accountable. However, this is a sizeable step.
It presents a dramatic shift.
New examples from coordination evolved. Prisoners arrange force feeding program aligned within societal dynamics.
To elaborate, the state imprints a different matter of control.
Prisoners are part of something greater. The balance of power shifts depend on
how prisoners of each group are seen.
They develop various alliances in society influencing their own reactions
Determining the point where they no longer take over proceedings such as force feeding.
They try interacting in things that facilitate how they relate by way of
of state-societitudes. Here, makes it simple to graspchanging societal policies during and beyond prison time with solid context.
Situation dynamics that result in the start, streamlining, or end of enforcement really change.
They tell a story dictating a balanced power it can play to both sides. For example, the ressurection of politically engaging prisoners.
It can stop as prisoners impact how groups or collectives influence societal outlooks.
Let's take a step back and think again.
If prisoners were to make a point calming resentments during and after stains.
Some good can still be impacted. There must surely then be a balancing point.
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questions
Are there hidden agendas behind the implementation of force-feeding programs, such as political motives or covert experiments?
If hunger strikers could choose their meals when being force-fed, would that improve their nutritional intake and moods?
How do the perceptions of civilised behaviour evolve over time in relation to state enforcement of 'making live' through force-feeding?
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