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I have a very unpopular opinion on this: if someone is overweight, and isn't sick or malfunctioning in any way that negatively impacts themselves, their loved o
by deviationblue 9y ago
I have a very unpopular opinion on this: if someone is overweight, and isn't sick or malfunctioning in any way that negatively impacts themselves, their loved ones, or society, then who gives a shit?
The libertarian and contrarian in me doesn't care what someone weighs, or how they choose to life. So extrapolating to a larger population, or society, I still fail to see how being collectively overweight is a negative in and of itself if there were no damaging burdens created because of that.
In fact, I think we need to subset the 70.7% population to weed out the "innocously fat".
- Kevin_S 9y agoBeing overweight is bad for your individual health. We know certain things in society have an impact on how overweight people get. Identifying and fixing those things is worthwhile. No one is insinuating that we should force people to become fit or anything, as you imply here.
- antisthenes 9y agoBeing overweight has a plethora of scientific evidence as being bad for you. I'm not going to re-cite the last 50 years of medical publications if that's what you're expecting. Extrapolating it to society means that healthy people have to subsidize the unhealthy, so it's extremely unfair to those who chose to invest in their health. So being 'contrarian' in this context is just being wrong, ignoring evidence and contributing nothing to the discussion.