NAAFA – the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance – has links to some articles on their website. For example, they link to “Do the obese really deserve contempt?“, “For Obese People, Prejudice in Plain Sight“, and “Fatties, it’s time to fight back“. In one of the articles the author states “Not only is such casual obesity-bashing considered harmless, some people
actually seem to believe they are ‘helping’ the overweight person by ‘giving advice.'”
If the obese think it is bad now, just wait to see how bad it will be if we have socialized medicine where others are being forced to pay for the obese’s choices (excluding those who are obese due to a legitimate medical condition).
Once someone else is being forced to pay for your health care, they have every right to give their input. Comments on an article about Gabourey Sidibe give some examples of people’s legitimate concerns about paying for someone else’s decisions:
One says “So go on a diet FATTY!!!” Another “Hey, if I’m paying for it, it becomes my business, get on the track and start running tubby.”
It is your choice if you are paying for it, once you force everyone else to pay for you, then it is everyone else’s concern. Just like drinking, smoking, riding a motorcycle, or any other activity that might cause you to run up the medical bills that the rest of us are forced to pay for. Get ready for the nightmare of people getting into your business because they are being forced to pay for it.
People generally fail to realize that the truly sane individual has no desire to control other people. No matter whether you think something is “good for someone else” the nature of freedom is that people are free to make their own decisions whether good or bad. And those same people might think some of your decisions are not best for your own good. The golden rule of freedom is to live and let live, mind your own business, and take responsibility for yourself. Do not be a child and do not be a parasite and expect someone else to take care of you. Be an adult.