Seems simple enough to me, lock them in a cell with a water spigot and leave a 30 cm opening for them to escape when they lose enough weight.

I prefer the Procrustes method!

The fact that people who are synonymous with poor self-control are now considered disabled, which is just enabling them. That's like saying an alcoholic is disabled and we should make their life-style of being obliterated every day easier for them. Let's help drug addicts by letting them keep good jobs to buy more drugs and just give them nice floormatts to sleep on at work when they pass out.

I gained a good 50 lbs before/after my surgery. It happens, and it's appalling to me every day to see myself like that. Even though if anyone has a valid excuse for being overweight, it's me! But how the hell people manage to get 100, 200, 300 lbs overweight is appalling and it's a symptom of this politically correct "never offend someone" B.S.

There's a huge difference between hating someone (my title is for humorous effect), and refusing to enable someone's vices.

As someone who is actually disabled and incapable of following any action to magically cure me, I find it rather irritating that poor self-control should be given the same credence as someone who can't walk.

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Then they're mentally disabled. Not disabled because of a symptom of their true disability.

Not at all. There are a relative few that have actual health reasons. I am overweight for an actual health reason. My weight and my stretchmarks are not my disability, they are symptoms of my disability.

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If someone has PTSD and they eat to cover their pain. That's terrible and we should definitely care. If someone just likes to eat and doesn't care about their appearance, they probably have ego and self-esteem issues and we should care about those underlying issues! But that doesn't make over-eating suddenly okay.

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Overweight people eat too much food. And unfortunately for them, it's exponentially harder to lose weight than it is to gain weight. That does not qualify as a disability for me. That might qualify for being lesser intelligence, but since when do they get special treatment? I disagree with calling it a disability except for cases where the weight gain is completely out of the hands of the individual: even if they do everything right they still gain weight. Everybody else just picked a highly visible vice. Hey, if they start classifying alcoholism as a disability let me know!

Relevant:

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Did anyone even read the source article?

I didn't see anything in your argument of merit. Just looks like trolling, to be honest.

You guys are so easily offended!

Shouldn't you think before you hate, and try to develop compassion for me?

What does saying "being fat isn't a disability" makes you identify personally with anything I've said? I'm for special treatment for people with true disabilities and the fact that you can't see that seriously makes me think you guys are the ones bringing baggage into the discussion.

Vices are not disabilities.

I'm sick of this "all criticism is oppression" mentality crap in modern culture. We can discuss things without the presumption that criticism is from a stance of hatred.

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That's a great way to win all your arguments. If you actually cared, you'd spend time to enlighten and correct me. But you don't, because you're acting like a modern day feminist social justice warrior. Attack everything except the argument. I guess I'm just not "disabled enough" for you to have a valid opinion on disability.

Yeah, I pretty much disagree with this. In my case, being fat is not a disability in and of itself, as i am able to lose weight (and have been doing so!) but for some people is is truly a disability, no matter how much they diet or exercise they simply can't shed weight due to chemical imbalances or genetic anomalies.

However, the 60%+ people that are overweight in the US are mostly all fat because they eat too much shit food. Processed foods containing mostly carbs (aka: sugar) and grains is just plain bad for you.

I got off the high carb diet and man, I started dropping weight. And steadily too. I even started eating more food. Including things like steak, eggs, bacon, and other high protein (and fat) foods.

I was always skinny as a kid, and my sister trolled me that an extremely obese cousin of ours ate things like sandwiches with maple syrup, peanut butter, pickles and ketchup. I actually ate those disgusting sandwichs for about a week.

When I joined the military and was able to eat regularly, I started lifting weights, but it was slow going. Eventually I was a skinny muscular guy.

Then when I turned 43, this current potbelly bloomed in just a couple of months and I've been fighting it since.

So I guess you could say I don't have any willpower at either extreme.

At my heaviest I was 260 pounds I felt like shit. I can't imagine how other people can manage more than that.

If you're obese, even when you're half assing it, you're hauling ass.

That's easy to say when you're not programming and that gnawing hunger keeps distracting you!

What? And leave the desktop behind? Horrors!

"My Woffice" (not my woffice)