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Andy22

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Only half. I think that it's a personal choice. If they're unhappy with being morbidly obese and extremely unhealthy to the point that they die well short of normal human life expectancy, it's on them to change. But you temper that mentality with the fact that our culture rewards people who eat to excess, that we have a love of all things fried and treat bacon as a Christ figure in meat form. Eating things you despise to live a long life seems just as bad to me as eating nothing but stuff you love but dying at 30. Everything in moderation.

Huh? Can you give me an example of how our culture rewards people who eat in excess?
 

KeithTalent

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Huh? Can you give me an example of how our culture rewards people who eat in excess?

Well it certainly doesn't punish them, but I imagine he is talking about fatasses on television and whatnot?

KT
 
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chitwood

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Eating things you despise to live a long life seems just as bad to me as eating nothing but stuff you love but dying at 30. Everything in moderation.

Um, I do not despise eating healthy food. In fact I think it's delicious.

I'm guessing you don't feel that way... based on the indirect way that you are defending obese people eating shitty greasy food
 

Ns1

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Huh? Can you give me an example of how our culture rewards people who eat in excess?

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Well it certainly doesn't punish them, but I imagine he is talking about fatasses on television and whatnot?

KT
He must be,considering all these news articles I see where really really fat people are accusing skinny people of discrimination.
 
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Um, I do not despise eating healthy food. In fact I think it's delicious.

I'm guessing you don't feel that way... based on the indirect way that you are defending obese people eating shitty greasy food

I never said you didn't like eating healthy food, I posited that these individuals who ate themselves into early graves did. And I said that because I believe in the personal freedom to put what you want into your own body. I don't do drugs, but I'm in favor of legalizing them, because I think grown people should have the right to control their own bodies. I think it's a ridiculous stance to go from "I feel that this is a proper way to live," to "therefore everyone should live the exact same way as me." They made the choice to live unhealthy lives, and they paid the consequences. So what? Maybe they can serve as cautionary examples to others.
 
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Here's an experiment. Pick a dozen morbidly obese people in the same age range as the two spokesmen who follow bad diets that do NOT include Heart Attack Grill. Watch them for two years. What are the chances that one or more of them will die of a heart attack in those two years?

Are you implying that the Heart Attack Grill guy is killing his patrons for publicity? Because that would be... well... horrifying actually. Like it should be an episode of Metalocalypse.
 

yuchai

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Better to die fat and happy than live well into your 90s and be miserable because you've been eating food you hate your whole life.

The problem is that medicine is so advanced these days that chances are that you don't actually get to die. You'll be sticking around for a while and suffering from all sorts of bad stuff that comes from those lifestyle choices.
 

zsdersw

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Um, I do not despise eating healthy food. In fact I think it's delicious.

I'm guessing you don't feel that way... based on the indirect way that you are defending obese people eating shitty greasy food

There's nothing in need of defense.
 

tontod

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From what I read, he never actually ate there, he refused the free food from there.
 

Ns1

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Good grief...you are using eating contests to prove our culture rewards eating to excess? That is an extremely small part of our culture and in no way represents the culture as a whole.

you asked a question and i answered it.