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You sound like you don't believe in ADHD “just finish what you started, have some impulse control!“, or autism "read the room, don't be so literal and stop getting distracted by noise and light, just ignore it".
It night be plausible that most people can just avoid the first cigarette or the first spliff or the first anything, but no one can avoid food, and some people's biology, their hormonal balance, their brain chemistry, mental health, shit, just their metabolic rate can make them have a very, very different order of magnitude of problems with food.
So it's easy for you to have self control around food and balance your calorie intake with exercise? Great, good for you, but stop acting all morally superior for not having problems in your life.
Get lost with that judgemental "it's simple" shit and try to learn a bit of self control yourself over what kind of nasty judgementalism you're spouting online without thinking about other people.
Obesity costs america trillions of tax payer dollars in Healthcare and productivity. Obesity is burying hospitals.
There is no way you can compare adhd or autism to Obesity. Obesity is a choice. Medical conditions are not. People choose to eat more and exercise less. I have no sympathy for people that make everyday life harder on society with no accountability.
The fact that you think having one cheeseburger is the equivalent to Crack cocaine is telling.
All it takes is a 30 minute walk daily and to eat a salad once a day. But apparently that's too much for some people and now they have to harm society with medial bills, lack of productivity, special treatment, and inconvenience.
The most unhappy, nasty people I know are obese because in there mind they are victims and its everyone else's fault but their own. They take no ageny or accountability for their actions.
All that weight hurts your body so much and when you can't even leave the couch to open the door for the 24 wings and loaded fried with a gallon coke , maybe its time for self reflection.
Go ahead. Defend people's poor life choices that are harming themselves, their family, and their communities. Support their victim mentality and tell them there is nothing that can be done and that they and beautiful just as they are when they need another person with a stick to hold up their fat just so they can have sex.
Obese body positivity is a death sentence and a depression enabler. Every person should always work on themselves to be better and that includes keeping your body and mind well maintained, no matter what their size is.
Congratulations on ignoring literally everything I said and arguing with some fictitious person who is "body positive" about obesity or who doesn't think it's a problem. I mean, I've come across straw man arguments before, but this one takes the biscuit.
You think your hate and contempt can fix other people, but you're very, very, very wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if you shout at homeless people or at last rant about them for half an hour behind their backs.
Also congrats on completely, utterly and comprehensively falling the self control challenge I set you.
Turns out your self control in some things is at absolute zero.
Still really proud of yourself? I bet you really are, because you're not very introspective so far today.
Because I care and love my friends and family and I want them happy and healthy somehow im a hate monger?
I see you have no experience in actually helping people with depression, drug, and obesity problem. Patting them on the back and telling them they are awesome while their life is out of control is the worst thing you can do. But go ahead and do what makes you feel better instead of actually helping.
You invent so much of my side of the conversation. You argue with what you'd prefer I had said because it's so easy to disagree with and knock down. You've invented this whole nonsense viewpoint and life history for me just so you can come across as more sensible. But it's insane because it has almost nothing to do with what I said and everything to do with your prejudices and your inability to have some self control over your judgementalism and your condemnatory impulses.
You've gotta be rightwing.
Bad people who make bad choices deserve all the bad things that come their way and some more flung at them by you just to show them how wrong they are? That's where you're coming from here.
Now you are assuming my political beliefs?! Good lord.
Self worth and accountability cut across all political spectrums.
You're probably right wing for keeping people fat and stupid so they cant march and fight back.