mindless1
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Not really - the most effective way to get the population in general to be more phyiscally active is to design the environment such that they incorporate it into everyday life, i.e. in getting from one place to another.
No. That is merely ONE way, not the most effective unless your only goal is crippling society, that you are placing forced exercise from walking, above all the far more important things. The simple fact is that it is unsustainable.
The most effective way is what we've already worked out. People exercise if they want to and use the most effective form of transportation that they want to.
If people have to make a special effort to be active - e.g. pay for and go to a gym - they mostly won't do it.
If they don't want to, that is a choice, a freedom to choose. Walk yourself to a communist country where fewer freedoms and more forced labor is a warped concept of "good".
Besides, here in the city it's much quicker to walk most places than to drive - or to use public transport. People drive for weird ideological reasons, not practical ones. It's a sort of political 'statement' for some, they feel more dominant when behind the wheel, for some weird reason.
That's not a besides, you're essentially trying to pretend that the entire world lives in a similar microcausm. The majority of people don't, and don't want to, live in this tiny a densely packed jungle where they can only see the same boring things every day because they don't travel beyond walking distance.
Your claim about ideological reasons is absurd. Most people drive because they'd never get anything done if they had to walk everywhere, have real lives, and then there's weather, or the frail not being able to withstand the outdoor elements, or those with handicaps, among other reasons.
You have no concept of reality. It is mind boggling that you can't appreciate that the entire world around you only exists because of the greater productivity from having better transit than walking. These internet posts you're making? They would not be possible without the productivity of people using more efficient transportation. This is true for almost everything in your life, right down to the materials that make the buildings you walk to, the workers who built them, everything inside those buildings, the power to the buildings, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. The entire infrastructure you depend upon counts on it, and you'd be living in a mud hut in the woods without others being less of a leech and more of a contributor to society.