Some people believe that everyone should be free to make their own lifestyle choices, even if those choices are unhealthy. Other people think that the government should intervene to influence people’s choices, for example by putting high taxes on unhealthy products.
Discuss both of these views and give your own opinion.
There are differing opinions on how people should lead their lives, especially with respect to lifestyle choices. Some people believe that the government should adopt measures to curb wrong lifestyle choices, whereas others think it is should be left to people themselves to decide. I am of the opinion that the government should not interfere in the lifestyle choices of people and should instead let people make decisions as they wish, even if it is considered unhealthy by some.
To support my argument that the government should not interfere in the lifestyle choices of people, I put forth two critical points. First, there is no universal rule on what is healthy and what is not. So then, who is the one to decide that a particular product is to be labelled unhealthy? What is deemed unhealthy for some, may in fact, turn out to be healthy for others. For instance, chocolates are considered unhealthy for people suffering from diabetes, whereas for others, it is recommended to be consumed in reasonable quantities every day. Second, the taxes in most countries are so high
already, that burdening the common man with additional taxes merely for his personal choices is not desirable.
On the other hand, some people believe that the government ought to tax lifestyle choices which are considered unhealthy. For instance, consumption of alcohol is considered as a social evil in India and is therefore expected to be taxed at an exorbitant rate. The rationale behind this thought is that by putting a high tax on such products, the interest of people in these products come down, thereby eliminating the problem. However, time and again, research has shown that this is not true and is therefore, not the most efficient solution.
To conclude, although some lifestyle choices seem unhealthy, people should be given a free hand in making their own choices and intervening in their lives is not what the government should be focussing on.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, so, then, therefore, whereas, as for, for instance, in fact, with respect to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 13.1623246493 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1631.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 324.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03395061728 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71084483108 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537037037037 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 508.5 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.8956486882 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.5 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1428571429 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.14285714286 7.06120827912 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.542232488065 0.244688304435 222% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.174700736569 0.084324248473 207% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.145941484509 0.0667982634062 218% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.283745538405 0.151304729494 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.1583198157 0.056905535591 278% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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