I myself along with many other coworkers have been injured trying provide
care for larger patients. Moving a 400lb patient, whether you have lots of help or not can be trouble.
Have you ever seen a 700 lb individual in person. A real disdain can develop.
You know that person does not work. Does not pay taxes. If you have been in a car accident or are incapacitated for whatever reason, its understandable to get bigger,
but 400-700lb is ridiculous.
So yes fat people are Dangerous/
but not fatties? Both are self destructive and exhibit a lack of self control, mainly toward an addiction that will eventually kill them.
It seems completely socially acceptable to "hate" smokers and be disgusted by them, but if you professed to hate fatties and were vocal about your disgust, you would be attacked by a mob with pitch forks and torches.
What's the difference?
Hate is embedded into our lives it doesn't matter. I hate freedom infringers and poor people. I hate, we all hate.
I smoke and I drink and I do it because I love it. Absolutely love it.
I think people perceive smoking as more of a conscientious choice than eating. Over-eating has been more attributed to genetic factors and early childhood influences from parents. People perceive smoking as something that people choose to do later in life, which makes them easier to shame since they have less of a perceived reason to continue smoking. You never here someone explaining away their smoking habit by saying that they are genetically predisposed to it or that their parents influenced them to do it.
I'd say you can file smoking under this flag as well. Many people pick up bad habbits from their surroundings. You grow up in a smokers household, its likely you wind up picking up the habbit.
That's likely true. It just seems like smokers start their habit late enough in life to know that it's bad, but fat people start early, before they are aware of their issues.
Because more people are fat than smoke. Same reason you can sin tax cigs but not soda or fast food.
But they absolutely should. Maybe if shitty fast food wasn't so much cheaper than healthy food, people would eat better and not be a burden on the health care system.
When people smokes it affects other people. If someone's a fat mess, that's their problem. They're not filling the room with smoke.