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They put less into the economy than a healthy person, and require tons more money from society than a healthy person. They're the main reason health care costs continue to skyrocket.
remember just because they are over wieght doesn't mean they don't work, I know some big boys that work just as I do, thin people get heart problems, cancer and many other things, I'm thin but I have type 2 diabetes.
How would you force people to be healthy?
All of your criticisms could be applied to AIDS patients, cancer patients, and so on.
To an extent, sure - although they are very, very different beasts.
Cancer can be lifestyle related, but often is not. AIDS usually is lifestyle related, but sometime isn't (well, in the 3rd world it often isn't - more African children will die of AIDS this year than ALL Americans who have EVER had HIV/AIDS).
Being fat is essentially 100% lifestyle induced, is never healthy, and has an extremely simple and cheap cure - burn more calories than you eat.
As to financial burden on our society, AIDS is dirt cheap whereas fatties are extremely expensive. Over the last 30 years, about 1.5 million Americans have gotten HIV/AIDS (cumulative - either living or dead). This year alone in excess of 1.5 million American will have their 1st heart attack (and many more will have subsequent ones), and more that 1.5 million people will develop diabetes - I think about 30 million Americans are currently living with diabetes and the rate of increase is staggering.
Cancer is expensive too but doesn't approach the cost of fatty related diseases. We'd be better off as a society (financially) if every obese person in the US picked up a major smoking habit - death via lung cancer is quick and cheap whereas death brought on from heart disease and diabetes is very, very expensive.
Furthermore, diabetes and heart disease greatly reduce the productive ability of the fatty. AIDS and cancer do too - but not to the same extent. Also, AIDS and cancer rates are either decreasing or have essentially plateaued. There is no end in sight to the skyrocketing rates of the obesity related diseases of diabetes and heart disease.
LOOK THE OTHER WAY!!! Maybe they don't like your nose or your legs so keep them covered and stay home.
It's hard to look the other way in the grocery store, especially when they bend over in front of you to pick up a box of Fruit Loops while showing their huge ass crack (many times w/ a trashy tattoo above it).
There's a reason skinny jeans are called SKINNY jeans.
It's hard to look the other way in the grocery store, especially when they bend over in front of you to pick up a box of Fruit Loops while showing their huge ass crack (many times w/ a trashy tattoo above it).
There's a reason skinny jeans are called SKINNY jeans.
Oh good Lord stop. LMAO!
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