Cakes

The senior big financial cheese just walked into our office with a tray of cupcakes and offered them around. Out of the four of us, three accepted and one declined

And I was reminded of this

Employees told they shouldn’t bring cake to the office

The head of the UK’s top food watchdog has compared bringing cake into the office to passive smoking, and advised employees against it.

Professor Susan Jebb, chairwoman of the Food Standards Agency, also lamented that the advertising of junk food is “undermining people’s free will”.

The young lad who refused, just politely declined. No reason given

After the cakes had left the office, we all had a dig at him about how we could have eaten his, and he made a jokey comment about being a health guru, but he never stated why he didn't want one and nobody asked

The nanny in chief of the food standards agency thinks being offered a cake is undermining people's free will. In fact the opposite is true. Free will is not only about being able to make choices, but also about being given those choices in the first place

Chief Nanny's solution would do more to undermine free will, by taking people's choices away from them. If she had her way, it would have affected all the people in our office in a negative way, incuding no cake lad. He made a decision that he felt was best for him. Peoples ability to make decisions and to employ critical thinking has been heavily eroded in the past few decades

Continue down this road and the Government will make all our choices and we will forget how to. That is a total loss of free will

I'd rather be fat than an unthinking drone who has all his choices made by the Government