SciFiBoy2.0 said:
SamuelRSmith said:
I think the biggest two problems with obesity are:
- The cost to health care systems.
- The needless driving up of the demand for food, increasing prices, and thus pushing more of the world's poor into starvation.
Obese people, in my view, should not be protected from discrimination. They are killing themselves, and, indirectly others. They are driving up costs everywhere, and are unsustainable. Frankly, they're not all that great to look at, either.
90% of the time, it's a lifestyle choice, like smoking or drinking, and has very similar costs to society. Yet, it's okay to ridicule smokers, and picking on the fat kid is bullying >_>
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oh wow...
I dont even know how poeple post stuff like that...
I almost want to cry tbh after reading that...
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To be fair, he he does have a valid point. In many respects obese people (who eat too much) are worse than, say, smokers. Yet we limit and tackle smoking to quite a high degree. We don't put obese people under the same level of scrutiny as smokers, we protect them even.
I'm in favour of taxing certain foods that are linked with obesity, and levying tax on those that aren't, to drive down the cost to the NHS and provide healthier lower cost meals.
