The practice of making government an "other" is an example of the illogical fallacy known as "strawman" thinking: inaccurately defining something or someone as bad and then arguing we should be against bad things. Lately the practice has also been known as "demonizing." We need to foster clear and accurate thinking, instead.

There are many other faults in anti-flouride argument presented, some of which are:

We, our brothers and sisters, are the government, directly and indirectly. Government is not the enemy except in the sense presented by cartoonist Walt Kelly through the character Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us!" We have "voted" for flouridation and, while asking to vote again is fine, to promote the idea this is anything new is to ignore history.

Science in the interest of public health, including reducing costs to society, was, is, and will be the reason for things like flouridation of water. As science learns new things, public health can be expected to adjust its practices, especially if cost-reduction is included. To use new discoveries provided by public health science to argue public health science is wrong everytime, is too illogical to spend much time on.

Many want to pick and choose the benefits of society, including government and science, while decrying the rest. Except for the most fanatic libertarians living off-grid for generations in a biosphere bubble unconnected with the rest of the world, this is a logically undefensible position.

My conclusion: We live in an interconnected system and each live with the bad and with the good, until we persuade the majority to make adjustments for us all. Such persuasion is better if it is logical, economical, and based on sound history and science. I would like to think parents can see this is the best way to educate their children.

It is perfectly fine, however, until someone succeeds in such persuasion to take steps within your means to reduce what you consider the effects of the "bad" - like putting in filter systems or relying on non-grid sources of supply.