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[–] Carsandsarcasm 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I believe we are fighting a losing battle. I believe this was inevitable ever since 50% of the population was overweight. The problem is that the majority isn't just a majority, it's a majority with the attitude and mental capability that fats have. There is no reasoning with them, there is no argument we can make because they aren't willing to listen. Minorities of old have overcome the majority through rational speak and sensible lobbying. That won't work with fats. The encourage them to lose weight approach doesn't work because they won't do anything if they don't absolutely have to, and the shame them approach rarely works because they have the fat majority to back them up against us.

I think we are waiting for the day when things like the medical community simply gives up and starts actively pandering to them. Either that or fats will overwhelm the support structure they rely on to stay fat and society will crumble. Either way, fats will destroy humanity.

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

Destroy humanity? Nah. But I do think that if the obesity epidemic continues to worsen, they will eventually help to bring about a societal collapse which results in hams experiencing one of the following fates:

  1. Worst case scenario, outright starving to death or dying from dehydration because they can't be mobile enough to find edible food and drinkable water.
  2. Slimming down because they can no longer access an abundant flow of cheap food.
  3. Dying from not being able to receive the medical care and medications which ordinarily would help to keep them alive.

Obviously if we reach the point where these scenarios are happening, it isn't just fat people who are going to suffer. Almost everyone to some degree would be having trouble. But the good news is that being fat won't be possible anymore for the vast majority of people for at least a good long while.

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[–] Carsandsarcasm ago 

Maybe "destroy humanity" was a little dramatic. When this collapse happens, and I agree that will happen, I fear there won't be enough capable people to keep the world ticking over otherwise. This collapse is likely to happen at around 85-90% overweight and maybe 60-70% obese. There is going to be a significant portion of the population who are bed bound, "disabled," claiming benefits, unable to do the physical jobs, and unwilling to do the less physically demanding jobs well. Realistically, the world won't be able to completely ignore them. We will be unable to adequately support them, but huge resources are going to be sunk into them during this transition/collapse. The amount of money being drawn to them and not being produced by them will affect everything else that needs money. It will have the economic effect of a war. Coming through it will be a tough recovery.