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>I realize it's a touchy subject, but I think it's a mistake to not stigmatize obesity (not overweight but obese) the way we do smoking I won't get a heart att
by slg 6y ago
>I realize it's a touchy subject, but I think it's a mistake to not stigmatize obesity (not overweight but obese) the way we do smoking
I won't get a heart attack from your second hand obesity. There are a lot of other unsafe behaviors that have more severe negative externalities than obesity.
- bedhead 6y agoWhat about their children? Or do they not count? Does the cycle that creates count for nothing?
- slg 6y agoObesity isn't contagious and doesn't pose a direct threat to anyone but the obese person. This isn't true of numerous other harmful behaviors that have greater negative externalities. If you want to work to stigmatize bad parenting, be my guest. Obesity of a parent isn't a symptom of bad parenting.
- nullsense 6y agoI think the cycle will be devastatingly hard to break once an entire country is fat.
- netizen-9748 6y agoWhat happens when you're in some sort of accident, need treatment, but that treatment is slowed because obese people are clogging the health care system?
- slg 6y agoThis is a bizarre hypothetical. Do you have any examples of someone in an acute medical emergency not receiving treatment because "obese people are clogging the health care system"? Also what about all the other people who are "clogging the health care system"? Does the drinker with liver problems? What about the cyclist who needs to have surgery to repair a compound fracture they got in an accident? How about the surfer who has skin cancer from being in the sun too much? What about all the old people in the health care system? Do you deserve medical attention over them? If the problem is not having capacity for medical system, let's build more capacity not stigmatize the people who need medical care.
- netizen-9748 6y agoIs 73% of the population surfers? Or are 73% of Americans alcoholics? This is a very large percentage of the population that will increasingly encounter health issues within a healthcare system with an artificially capped number of physicians.