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52Percent   United States
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As an outsider to another one… do yourself a favour and sybau
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The beginning of the end of an era?

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52Percent   United States
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Johnxyz:
I'm 75 years old. I have seen diet plans, weight loss drugs and weight loss surgery come and go. I have personally known two people who died from taking Fen-Phen. I've seen and heard about a lot of people who have died or became permanently disabled from weight loss surgery. (They keep blaming the "old" surgery, even when the new became the old.) Basically, your body can't tell the difference between someone in a concentration camp, and someone who wants to look more fashionable. We will never see the eradication of obesity.


Dammmn you 75? That’s crazy to be here at this age.
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JN_TumLover56   Canada
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Delta9:
At some point obesity will be seen as a curable disease, and if you choose not to accept the cure, you'll be penalized, probably by having insurance coverage dropped. And also people will think something else is wrong with you, like a person with poor vision who refuses to simply wear glasses.
As obesity becomes less common, those who reject the cure and embrace their size will be viewed as particularly disgusting. As well as those of us who desire them. Anyone who remains overweight, people will automatically assume they must have a fat fetish. So maybe it can become a more honest world in that regard, and we can finally admit to everyone that we're fat because we want to be that way.
But also, this is probably a decade or two away.


Coming back to read this again. This is the exact kind of dystopia that I fear what will happen at some point.
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Fatboi899   United States
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I would like to add that in the advent of these drugs and “cures” a lot of the negative side effects are being realized given their popularity. Funnily enough a lot of these glp 1 drugs only claim to reduce body mass not fat specific. I personally believe this may be another trend that will die out eventually as for fat acceptance and how we are all viewed I cannot speak on that I feel like I’ve social media cooling off in terms of talking about peoples body’s at least in my feed
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The Augmentor   United States
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I used to worry about things like this all the time. But it's too crazy-making. And I like to think I am at least a little wiser with age.

Say there were such a thing as a heart-attack fetish. (I'm sure there is, but I don't want to know.)

If doctors were able to develop a way to prevent heart attacks completely, I think the overwhelming majority of people would agree, that's a net benefit.

I don't think anyone would be like, "But think of the heart-attack fetishists!"

So if the effective end of obesity happens in our lifetime, then that would be frustrating for us feedists (I guess we'd all have to find new fetishes), but 99.999999999998% of the rest of the global population would be rejoicing.

Look, none of us is the custodian of this fetish.

We don't have a duty to ensure that it lives on.

If I had kids, I'd hope for them to be happy and free of weird hang-ups, including feedism or a heart-attack fetish.
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