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I think that no one believes fat should be something to be proud of. There are lessons on the ability of a person to be proud of himself or herself even if he or she is obese. A person's weight should not be the determining factor on how a person respects or disrespects himself.
But you don't wake up and say, hey, I think I'll have a car accident today, of course not. But fat people have the choice of not eating a lot or shoveling a lot of food down their neck, big diffence.
I think there is where we differ. For many people, it does not take "a lot" of food to become fat.
Only very few have this problem, such as hormonal, but most use this as an excuse, just like they do with everything else these days, we have to start to take responsibility annstop blaming everything else for our proboblems, it will only kill us if we don't.
No one is trying to say we should encourage obesity. NO ONE! However, what people are saying is obese people shouldn't be shamed, mocked, ridiculed, or expected to be ashamed of themselves. Being crippled is often a tremendous burden of budgets and people, and we certainly aren't going to encourage people to make themselves wheelchair bound. But, despite the fact sometimes personal choices do lead to paralysis, you'd be considered a real ******* to shame them. The same goes for those with mental illnesses.
"Acceptance" is not the same as encouragement. I accept that most people are religious, however I do not encourage it.
It does help to keep pressure off the real culprit when we parade around believing everything is just as easy of personal choices and self-accountability.
I am sorry I am slow. What does it mean?
If we just go around blaming fat people are their "poor choices," it distracts us from the fact we are expected to sit for hours on end our entire lives, there is sugar added to everything and an over abundance of processed chemical foods and vast wastelands of food deserts, and food companies have and are misleading and misinforming consumers.
I am arguing against the notion that's all that's behind it, all it takes, and is that easy and simple.
It is not so simple. Have you ever needed to care for a household of people and also work? Have you ever looked at the price of some vegetables and thought you didn't have enough $ that week to buy them?
