Disclaimer: All of my opinions are based off of observation of society and the words ‘mostly’ ‘usually’ and other adverbs are used with no other factual backing then my own experiences.
[quote]dtheyer wrote:
Devils advocate here, but do you guys have the same hatred towards people who are alcoholics, or drug addicts? Similar to obesity, it is very hard to get sober or ‘thinner’. Imagine if you were 250 pounds of fat… no muscle, no cardiovascular… getting up a flight of stairs might give you a heart-attack.
Obesity is really a shitty situation because not only is it extremely unhealthy like drug addiction, there is a huge social stigma because you can’t hide the fact that you are fat.
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This is exactly what makes the obese so different from drug addicts (ill include alcoholics here as it is basically a drug).
People who are on drugs are usually impaired to the point where when they see themselves in the mirror, they appear as normal people (and i can justify this because i know ALOT of drug addicts) Drug users become drug addicts in a flash, one day your just dabbling, a month later your sniffing lines off the top of a toilet.
Throughout the course of this change, the user is usually too impaired by the drugs to realize what is happening to him/her. Food does not impair your judgement. You dont get high and not realize what your doing after you eat a donut.
I find it hard to believe people get fat without realizing it. How do you not notice your clothes getting tighter, and that giant gut protruding out from under your tshirt?[quote]
How do people get there in the first place? That is what needs to be addressed the most. I think parents should be held accountable for how they raise their kids.
If you are buying liters of soda, not cooking for your family, and letting your children spend all day on their asses playing video games, you are a destroying your children’s chances of living a healthy life. That is borderline child-abuse and neglect in my opinion.[/quote]
Ill agree with you here. A majority of obese people most likely learn bad eating habits and neglect for physical health from there parents. These parents also (mostly in the extreme cases) have some underlying mental issues suffered in there own childhood that causes them to spoil there children.
You know the parents im talking about. They’re the parents in wal-mart being drug around by the “im a little boss” child with a shopping cart full of shit they dont need, all because they are afraid to say no, and when they do say no to something, the child throws a hissy fit and causes a scene.
I really believe it comes down to a lack of disciplining children in todays society. In our parents (or grandparents for some of us) day, acting like that would have meant one thing, an ass-whooping. Children today do not fear there parents.
I know im going to catch some heat for this, but a child who is spanked, even if its only once or twice in the early years, lives with a certain respect for his/her parents. You know that when they say no, they mean no and thats that.
Generation after generation of these children raised in this increasingly liberal hippy non violent, be your childs friend bullshit become more and more spoiled, immature and impatient. Impatience breads obesity.
Taken from : http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/14/earlyshow/living/parenting/main617562.shtml
Really? I learned respect early, and when my parents spoke, I listened.
[quote]Class_0f_2009 wrote:
fuck u bro u jus jealous that im bigger and stronger than u! LOL! homo![/quote]
ahhh i get it now