• It’s very difficult to stay healthy if you’re forced to work most of the day and can only afford cheap, extremely unhealthy food. I don’t think natural selection is a good thing for humanity at this point, since our intelligence is by far our most important feature (Einstein wasn’t exactly buff)

    • @TheAnonymouseJoker
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      02 years ago

      We reached here both by brain and brawn, so we need both. Intelligence and intellect does not mean we become stickmen.

      • Sure; I’m not saying that we shouldn’t try to stay healthy, only that we probably shouldn’t harshly judge someone just for having an unhealthy diet or lacking motivation to exercise consistently, particularly in a capitalist society

        • @TheAnonymouseJoker
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          12 years ago

          We should probably judge people for being obese borgs due to insane eating/bingeing/gobbling habits. Letting them bask in their fat globule glory is extremely irresponsible

          • As long as one considers why they have these eating habits in the first place. I certainly think it should be discouraged and people should be educated, but most extremely obese people likely have some severe mental illness and they deserve treatment.

            • @TheAnonymouseJoker
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              02 years ago

              People, regardless of claiming on surface to know or not, subconsciously are quite corrupted as far as food porn binge habits go. Even if they claim that they do not realise, does not excuse them because everyone does not have same eating patterns in society. The control and planning fault is on them. If they consume a garbage can (Netflix+Instagram+pizza+coke+icecream) culture, throw the culture out of life, and adopt better lifestyle.

              Society must play a role, since corporations love to stuff people’s mouths with junk food for profits.

              There is this one American restaurant or eatout chain, that gives the greasiest burgers and stuff in the world, and actively says that people can die of heart attacks from eating them. People eat them and many have died, and the owner openly says people eat them for their own taste, and he only cares about profits. You can probably search greasiest burger or such on YouTube and find the restaurant and owner interviews.

              • I think we might be talking about different kinds of people. I don’t have much sympathy for the people who knowingly buy food like the extreme greasy burgers you mentioned, but I do sympathize with mildly obese people who frequently eat cheap, unhealthy food if they can’t easily afford anything else, and I certainly sympathize with people who don’t have the time or motivation to exercise consistently.

                • @TheAnonymouseJoker
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                  12 years ago

                  If they can eat unhealthy food, they most likely can take out an hour daily for some exercise. Not bodybuilding, but simple exercise. People that do not do it end up as mildly or slightly obese or fat, and that is still a problem on them. People always have time, it is just about priorities. Health is not a priority to people, and under any circumstance, unless they are critically surviving in warzone or are physically disabled or such, it is wrong.

                  • It’s not always that simple. For example, someone with severe depression might find it extremely difficult to do these kinds of things, no matter how much free time they have. Even if you’re OK mentally, there are plenty of reasons for why people don’t exercise, like having to consistently work long hours and being extremely tired at the end of the day. I don’t see why it should matter to other people (aside from doctors, I suppose) whether someone is slightly obese.