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What's unsustainable about it?
by rcme 4y ago
What's unsustainable about it?
- lm28469 4y agoFat = unhealthy = more stress on the health care system Fat = lower fertility Fat = largest contributor in the 3 top leading cause of deaths in the US &c. imho it's a symptom of a larger thing, like stress induced over eating in animals. It's a slow suicide, an healthy individual should be able to see it for what it is and act on it, society should be able to see it for what it is and help these individuals, seems like we're doing the complete opposite, mostly for profit
- rcme 4y agoNone of those things are inherently unsustainable. In fact, a smaller population that dies earlier is actually more sustainable than a large, long-living population.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoA dwindling population eventually reaches 0
- rcme 4y agohttps://xkcd.com/605/ https://xkcd.com/605/ It seems more likely that an equilibrium would be reached before the population reaches 0.
- lm28469 4y agoUnsustainable as in "humanity will be wiped out ? Clearly no Unsustainable as in people are shadows of what they could be, people die way earlier than they should, &c ? Definitely Outliers excluded, the difference between an active/fit 60 years old and someone who's been fat their whole life at the same age is night and day. One has years/decades of healthy life to go, the other has one foot in the grave If it was an experiment on animals we would have pulled the plug 30 years ago
- rcme 4y agoI agree that if you measure outcomes by life expectancy or activity level, being obese is objectively bad. But we give people agency to make their own decisions, and obesity is a choice. It's both a personal choice, i.e. people choose their lifestyle and diet, and a societal choice, i.e. society chooses not to discourage unhealthy eating habits. Plenty of choices lead to objectively worse outcomes, but that doesn't mean those choices are unsustainable. It just means they're less than ideal.
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