Half-ton Man Dies, family blames government

Originally Posted by Shin

Shorty, honey, the instances of someone having a genuine metabolic disorder that causes them to be a huge blubbery mass, despite eating hardly anything and jogging a lot are so few and far between as to almost have gained urban myth status. It's just an excuse fat people use for being lazy, greedy bastards. "It's my metabolism, it's really slow" and I'm sure it's your metabolism that makes you drive to Burger King and stuff your face with cow sinews twice a day too right? What the fuck ever.

This still cannot justify whether or not bullying is used as a tactic. My god, man, you're an adult; do you really want the adult community to turn a blind eye to harmed children? And although the majority of obese people do not suffer from a metabolism disorder, it is illogical to jump to the other extreme and assume that the overweight are 'lazy, greedy bastards'. To blame society for all of the ills of its people is bad news; to ignore the role society plays is either optimistic or ridiculous (really, both).

Although I can't rightly blame the fast food companies for marketing an addictive substance that I am, well, addicted to, I can acknowledge that I live in a society that encourages it. And don't tell me it doesn't, either.

That means that if you're saying that we, as a society, needs to assert that gluttony is a sin and moderation is a virtue again, I'm all for it. And you seem, in so many ways, to be advocating that. I agree. We shouldn't have "fat appreciation" clubs or the like. But, you take it a step further. Discouraging gluttony as a character trait and bullying/harming those that exemplify it are two different things.

My family taught me that while sex was right, lust (I need to prefece it as saying "overactive libido") was a negative. (It's an unpopular viewpoint, but I don't mind it too much). I would never say we should beat the shit out of prostitutes. Looking down on sexual deviancy is not the same thing as turning a blind eye to dead hookers.

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If an employee came to me and said they needed time off for depression I'd say "You think you're depressed? I'll give you something to be depressed about, you're fucking fired you useless malingering cunt". Fuck depresssion and fuck fatties.

Vaguely off-topic, but that would make you a horrible manager.

How ya doing, buddy?