- Oct 5, 2009
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New York City passes law barring weight discrimination
America's largest city joins a movement to make size a protected trait on par with race and gender.
Personally I'm as liberal as it comes but i totally disagree with this. I'm for non discrimination of anything a person is when they are born. But If anything I wish society would discriminate more against overweight and obese people, just like society discriminates against smokers and alcoholics. Yes I know obesity has some genetic and social factors behind it, but that's no different than alcoholism, tobacco use and drug use. The reality is largely the rapid rise in obesity is largely environmental. Just my two cents. Call me cruel. I just don't think obesity is on the same level as gender, race, sexual orientation in terms of things that should be protected.
