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[–] Gabu 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How about we don't, because being fat is unhealthy and also costs a lot of money to public healthcare and infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Making it your business to call out people who are unhealthily overweight is counter productive. People know they're heavy, people know it takes a toll on their health. Lambasting them will only exacerbate their depression and make their relationship with food far more destructive. Don't be a dickhead.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Generally, I'd say that's true. But given multiple people have told I'm underweight when I was borderline obese (and I don't do any weight lifting or do manual labor as a job) does make me question how many people know they're overweight. Obese people generally know they're overweight.

The solution isn't calling out individuals about their weight though or collectively shaming people for being overweight. If you want people do have better diets and exercise more, changing the environment to be more conducive for that will do much more. But making sure healthyweight and overweight people aren't pressured into eating more by people who insist they are underweight is probably a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Exactly. We've got to treat the root cause of what's going on, and that's often an extremely complex challenge that varies from person to person.