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In reply to the discussion: Obesity a threat to food security [View all]Bad_Ronald
(265 posts)No, not against obese people, but against those who feel sanctioned by trendy junk science & their own sanctimonious bigotry to either discriminate against others, or simply to denigrate them as being unworthy members of society whose very existence is an affront to nature. If the internet existed one hundred years ago, we'd see threads like this featuring the latest & greatest crackpot hypotheses from eugenicists....and many of the same responses from people who consider themselves social progressives.
The logical fallacies inherent in the assertions of these so-called scientists have already been highlighted by others in this thread: The athlete, for example, that consumes 3-4 times as many calories as the average person, or individual variations in metabolism, natural body size etc. However, what I find patently ridiculous is that some people here think it is okay for an active person to consume 4-5 times as many calories as an obese one simply because they "burn it off", which negates the "ecological sustainability" argument presented by these quack scientists they claim to support. Obviously, it is the lifestyle of the obese these people object to, not the amount of food they consume.
Ive noticed that some of the same people who seem to howl like banshees being slow-roasted over a low flame when some religious whack job objects to gay marriage and lectures gay people on how they should live their lives have no compunction telling others what they should eat, how much of it, and when they should exercise. If it is wrong to look inside someone's bedroom and tell them who they should love & how, then it should be equally wrong to stick your nose in someone's dinner tray & tell them what they can or can't eat.
As a society, we've done a great job making it socially unacceptable to openly mock & belittle entire groups of people for simply being who they are. We obviously still have a long way to go in that regard.