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I don’t think the argument is really any individual’s choice. If someone believes low sat is helping, then by all means go low salt. The real question is whether the gov’t should regulate salt. That answer should be clear.

The answer should be clear, but even to many "conservative" people here on FR, it isn't. They argue over whether salt, or some other substance, is good or bad for you, and if they conclude it is bad for you, then they want the all-powerful nanny government to step in and do something about the horrors of salt consumption. Very few, even here, ask whether it is the government's place to do such a thing. That is why we are doomed.

Salt became a bogeyman when people started being so sedentary as a whole, and when air conditioning became a widespread residential phenomenon, in the sixties and seventies. The two aren’t completely unrelated.

Prior to that, salt was a necessity. Try working outside all day with temps in the nineties or higher and high humidity, without salt. You’ll pass out. People still take salt tablets under those conditions.