I'm sorry it took me so long to respond to what I would laughably call your argument, I simply couldn't stop alternating between laughing and baying for blood.
Now now, my blood's quite happy where it is thanks.
I don't even know where to start, you obviously know some pretty assholeish fat people if you think they take advantage of their conditions. Second off, they pay for their medical treatments, not you, unless they don't have enough money to have decent insurance in which case they are fat because they can't afford health food.
I live in the UK, it's different here. Everyone has the right to free treatment on the NHS, but that means taxpayers eventually foot the bill. So we are paying for everyone who is in a public hospotal. Regards the US system you still pay, that's a bed and a hospital's staff and time that could be used for something else. It'll also come back to you as insurance companies up their premiums to cover the costs to them.
As for taking advantage of their condition, that's not quite what I meant. When people get sick they expect to be treated, that's reasonable. It's that whilst they're relatively healthy they ignore the advice that could stop them getting sick in the first place.
It's hard to feel synpathy for someone who develops type 2 diabetes when they were being told they needed to lose weight or suffer the consequences for years.
To me that's madness, like if I went riding my bike without a helmet, yet thought it was somebody else's fault when I got a skull fracture.
3rd, all of the things you mentioned can happen to anyone, and anyone would react that way.
True, they could happen to anyone at any time. But the statistics say it's (much, much) more likely to happen if you are overweight. The conditions I mentioned are the ones most associated with obesity. It's been well proven and documented that being overweight not only increases the likelyhood of these happening but makes them worse.
Compared to a lifetime on insulin or half a million dollars worth of heart surgery four hours a week in the gym doesn't seem like a high price, yet millions would apparently chose the former and get mad when others call them out on it.
Going back to my bike analogy it's about taking reasonable precaution. If I go out helmeted and armoured up but still crash and break my collarbone, well that's just my bad luck. I took reasonable precautions against it, why is weight any different?
Saying it's bad is like saying that cervical cancer shouldn't get research money because only women get it and if they don't want it they need to change.
That's confusing what's within an individuals control and what isn't. Nobody chooses their gender, or to get cancer, or be in an accident, or to get old, they just happen and there's nothing you can do to stop them.
Being overweight isn't like that, it's something that's very simple to control. If a man comes in having drunk himself half to death or smoked until his lungs are shot, would you consider those out of his control or would you think he needed to MTFU and quit smoking/drinking?
Granted the practice is always harder than the theory, but anything worth doing is hard.
I would much rather money put into researching weight linked diseases went into encouraging children to take up excersize. It would be treating the cause instead of the symptoms.
As for the cost of keeping fit, running is cheap, so are circuits and footballs and frisbees and a hundred other sports. Healthy food is not so much about what you eat as how much and when. Vegetables are cheap, even in the US they're cheap. Having a smaller portion is cheap, not snacking between meals is cheap.
None of it's rocket science, yet people find it offensive when others question why they are fat. I don't get it, the reasons why it's bad are plain for all to see and the help is there and it's free. Yet they still get offended instead of helping themselves.
