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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can no longer accept obesity as something normal and desirable. I am seeing people die in my home country of COVID and we need to recognize that obesity is a co-morbidity.

Just like extreme thinness of anorexia is a life threatening condition so is obesity. [/quote]

And how, pray tell, do you address the anorexics?  Do you shame them into dieting, call them names and criticize them for their moral failures?[/quote]

[b]No one shames anyone in the entire world unless the people are being inconvenienced in some way [/b](sitting next to an obese person in the airplane and being squished).

Do I find pictures of obese or skeletal people in bikinis appealing in ads? No. In a documentary, maybe.

Do I have a right to judge them? No. I feel pity for their health condition. If the unhealthy person is my child and us not an adult then I will try and make them eat in a healthy manner and get them professional health. As a parent, that isn't responsibility.

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That is a pretty naïve statement. How does a fat person inconvenience some random people across the street to stop and shame and stare at him/her? Or the urgent care doctor who they went to see for a UTI? Or the clerks at a store that the person is trying to patronize? Or the people who are attending the same party? And no the person isn't eating all of the food at the party. Read some of the blogs of people who had extreme weightloss and see how differently they were treated as a heavy person.[/quote]

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