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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least people are kinder now. In the early 2000s, cruelty about weight was horrific. There’s never any need for that.  [/quote]

Meh, I think there is.

Fat kids in the 70s and 80s got teased relentlessly. I was one of those kids. It made me want to work to get skinny. The teasing was motivation.

My niece is fat and there's nothing to motivate her to lose weight. If a doctor even brings it up, she and her friends will put that doctor on blast on social media. People are now selling "don't weigh me unless medically necessary" cards to hand out to doctors. She shakes her ass on TikTok with all kinds of hashtags about her beauty and body positivity. Sorry, no, there's nothing positive about being 350lbs except the fact that you're probably not going to get kidnaped or sex trafficked. She has terrible knee issues, gets winded walking through a grocery store, doesn't fit in most restaurant booths, and is diabetic... none of those are positives.

There needs to be some degree of bullying to toughen people up and act as motivation to change. [/quote]

We have become so sensitive as a society that there's this tremendous pressure not to be judgmental but that's resulted in a failure to provide good structures and expectations for people. The growth in fat acceptance is a perfect example. And I can also think of a bunch of other examples that will remain nameless at the moment. There's nothing wrong with a bit of judging and shaming. People do learn from it. And it's usually for the best. IT can be overdone, agreed, but we have a problem if we can't tell overweight kids it's not good to be fat and instead are telling them fat is beautiful when it only means a lifetime of health problems.

A perfect example of how judging and shaming has good outcomes is smoking. The peer pressure not to smore and the growth in perception that smoking was a shameful habit did encourage many people to quit as well as stop others from taking up smoking in the first place. We need to do the same with obesity. Frankly, given that there is a very high correlation between obesity and hospitalization with COVID, this should be a perfect opportunity to have a national dialogue about weight and obesity.

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Shame associated with smoking came years after government intervention. The shame happened because of the structural changes, not the other way around. Smoking was seen as glamorous.

But I suspect facts and accuracy are not really your thing anyhow.[/quote]

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