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Originally Posted by Fotzlid
Disparage away people. Must be nice looking down from those high horses.
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Maybe we should all be crying lots of big salty tears for fat people, but when I look around me and see people with real problems that they have no control over it's hard to get too worked up because somebody ate too many cheeseburgers and now they can't get a date to the prom. Don't get me wrong, I meant it when I said I'm apathetic on the matter. It's up to each individual to live his or her life as best deemed fit, and if your idea of a night off involves a pizza and six and a half hours of television, then by all means go for it. I'm just not buying the discrimination argument. A man who has ALS and is wheelchair bound is a man whose rights I'll fight for. A man who supersized too many times and feels like he's being excluded because he can't fit through normal-sized doorways anymore can fuck off and take up jogging, so far as I'm concerned. And a man who is overweight because he has hypothyroidism is still an idiot for not going to his doctor and/or finding a better one when said doctor is unable to help him manage his condition and his weight effectively.
Not a lot of people are willing to jump to the defence of smokers' rights to light up anywhere they damn well choose and anyone who will is also an idiot. As a former smoker I can state quite categorically that smoking is bad and that while people are free to do it or not do it as they see fit, they have no right to force others to accommodate them because of their choice. Why should overweight people be any different?
You seem to think this view makes me elitist. If that's the case, then quite frankly I'm perfectly comfortable with that. After all, at least I'm a thin elitist.