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People chanting “If everyone just did X, Y wouldn’t be a problem!” without seriously addressing why everyone doesn’t just do X already, or making a serious prop

• brianmcc 2y ago
  Yep. When 1 or 10 or 100 people do a thing, it's a "them" issue. When 100,000,000+ do a thing - it's a wider issue, and asking those 100,000,000 to do it differently just isn't a useful strategy.
  • mortos 2y ago
    In another vein, if my bank account is $100 short, that's my problem. If my account is $1m short, that's the bank's problem. Considering it's a societal wide problem, society at large ought to care about resolving it. It's incredibly expensive otherwise to treat chronic, lifelong obesity.
• zahlman 2y ago
  I don't know people who just give the "trite" advice without any actual consideration of the difficulty. I do see a lot of people ITT who were accused of doing so but who aren't actually doing so. And I've known quite a few people who get really annoyed at constantly having to hear about how impossible it is to do things that they've personally actually done.
  • pas 2y ago
    it might be still impossible for others. tell a blind person to just look out for cars. tell a person with paralyzed legs to just get up and walk. tell a type 1 diabetic to just skip insulin. obesity has a large hereditary component. important genes associated with obesity are expressed in the brain. is it impossible to live with constant hunger and its consequences? no, likely not, but it's not really a big mystery why millions of people fail to do so.