Weetabix:
Just another opportunity to intervene medically and have the state foot the bill.
The battle between the body acceptance people and those who say it should be altered will be epic.
What if Obese becomes and identity, a protected characteristic. They say that deaf people are very proud of their deaf identity having learned sign language and ways of living well as a deaf person. I read a New Scientist article about this. The last thing they want is someone curing them of their identity.
Once someone has incorporated corpulence into their person then it's a direct attack on them to offer to resolve that problem.
Heck it's a direct attack on them if they're still struggling with the fact that they are fat and the mixed messages they are getting about it.
Curiousv:
Why do you have to be such an extremist about it? The vast majority of fat people would like to lose weight. The vast majority of deaf people would love to be able to hear. The vast majority of blind people would love to be able to see. Why do you want to force them to "embrace" it? Why do you want to forbid people from helping them?
Sure, if someone doesn't want that help, that choice should be available too. But don't take away that choice from those who want to use it.
The vast majority? You've either got statistics or you're assuming. When you use big terms like VAST MAJORITY you're trying to strengthen your argument.
For a start some deaf people it's an identity and they don't welcome the 'cure' because they don't regard that there is anything wrong with them. We may disagree but they can have their own ideas.
In a society which shames fat people and makes them suffer like in the post below where the parents put her on diet after diet causing an eating disorder then yes people don't want to be fat. If there was not all this societal punishment for being fat who'd even care if they were fat?
The actual act of eating is pleasurable, no one regrets eating. If they are in pain they remember the pleasure and the fact the pain will pass. Nothing bad about being fat unless you value the way your clothes fit and your ability to run. You can always buy bigger clothes and who wants to run anyway.
Doctors will give us grief but if they just dealt with the consequences and gave up on the warnings we'd all be happier.
Religion regards gluttony as a sin and for those people who want to please God then it's a problem.
If people want to be slim more than they want larger meals then they could achieve that. People should simply accept what they want and the consequences that come with that. You want to be slim then no more pie and more exercise.
So don't say you know what the VAST majority of people want unless you can acknowledge the pressures on their decisions.
And yes I do believe in good and evil and I do think the population are used as emotional energy generators by the Gods, at the very least Satan or his followers trying to generate power.
