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[–] bikebikebike 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

So many people have accepted life as garbage, eating garbage, rolling in garbage as the norm. Our future as a society is threatened.>

I think society has failed because it has marked this as acceptable. We should be speaking out about obesity and what its impact is to our future could be.

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[–] WittyBlurbSlashWitty [S] 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Yes, this, I got scornful looks from someone whose opinion I highly value when pointing out if only the fat geek had applied a quarter of that obsession to taking care of themselves a little they wouldn't be a human marshmallow dripping with sweat and grease struggling to breathe just standing there.

They responded, you don't know them, you're making a lot of assumptions.

To which I said, wait it's ok to see an alcoholic and know they're choosing drink over getting help, or a heroin addict, or this being the South a meth head, and in each case you know they have said fuck it I don't care. And we avoid those people and look down upon them vs. someone in recovery struggling to make themselves better. But here you have someone whose addiction has made them three times the size of medically normally, they have to buy clothes in specialty shops, their lives literally revolve around satisfying their addiction, their bodies are a road map of future organ system failures. But because being fat is so common now it's now ok? This is how the Roman empire, something so amazingly well organized, imploded; it ran so well the average citizen couldn't be bothered, decay had become the norm and anyone who railed against it was a radical and ridiculed.

All I got was a hmm in response, I'm hopeful I started a mental worm.

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[–] Kaddayah 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Your arguments are all valid. Unfortunately, when people do not want to listen, they don't.