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Originally Posted by Willravel
I could find a psychologist in 20 minutes to diagnose someone with a food addiction. How? MOST Americans are addicted to food. As a matter of fact, obesity is one of the main symptoms. And most overweight people have some form of depression, be it clinical or not. Combine those two and you've got a solid case.
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I find food addiction a little hard to swallow, considering all members of the animal kingdom require food consumption simply to survive. I don't necessarily think that everyone who is overweight has any form of depression either, not without some stats to back that up, and since there are likely many people who could use to get more exercise that don't see a doctor about their psychological state, I think it's going to be rather difficult to get accurate statistics to do so.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
That was the picture I was painting, as it relates to spending public money for an individual's physical problem with a substance that's not illegal.
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You said that the person had an addiction to pain killers. A person with an addiction may not necessarily have ODed on said painkillers. Weaning them off said painkillers would be more apropriate than pumping their stomach, that was my point.
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Hydrants don't have feelings, to consider they're inanimate objects.
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How many airplane tickets do you suppose he'd have to buy before he could honestly say that he wasn't invading someone else's personal space. 3? There is an issue of how one presents one's self in public and how decent that is.
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How big are the seats in First Class? Coach airplane seats aren't exactly comfortable even for a person that's not overweight, when I was 21 a window or aisle seat was rather uncomfortable on the side where another person sat (I mentioned my size at that age earlier in this thread) so I'm not going to blame fat people so quickly on this one as it seems that anyone other than a child or a petite woman is going to invade the space of the adult next to them in coach to some degree.
The guy in that picture isn't violating public decency either, now if he were walking around wearing only a thong you would have a point.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Actually, the enforcement MAKES money. Remember?
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Whenever law enforcement is in the business of making money, it's rife with the potential for abuse, if the law enforcement agency gains from the money made in any way shape or form, that is even worse.