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why is this an issue for you? Why do you care? Why is it an "objectively bad thing" what people do with their bodies? Would you call someone a "smoking fuck" or a "tattooed fuck" or whatever? What's it to you? Also you don't know what a fat person "working on themselves" looks like. For instance psychological trauma can cause someone to become fat and that person might be unable to get to a societally acceptable weight until that trauma is resolved. Which might be impossible due to other factors.
There are so many facets to this that you cannot possibly know or comprehend unless you have very close fat friends or are fat yourself.
Not to mention that your judgemental attitude makes it harder for someone to lose weight. One of the reasons fat people don't like to jog or got to a gym or really be in public at all sometimes are the judgemental looks and attitude they get even when they do what everyone expects of them: losing weight.
Also there just are different body-types, and not just the one that everyone expects. I don't know if you have spent any time around babies but they look all completely different in terms of how fat they are and it isn't due to diet, or lack of exercise, they were literally born that way. Why should this be different for adults??
A thin person is not "a better person" because they're thin fuck off with that.
Just let people be who they are and don't expect them to become acceptable to you. That's a really shitty thing to do to others.
Because I live somewhere with socialised medicine
So yes, the smokers, the fatties, the idiots on bicycles who don't wear helmets have an impact on everyone else, because it's not an infinite pool, and so everyone who is a burden because of their behaviour has an impact on everyone else
Tattoos don't cost the health system. Even the person climbing a tree who falls out and breaks their arm has no impact
Fatties do. Smokers do.
Being fat does not mean being unhealthy. Plenty of people are counted as fat by societal standards but aren't unhealthy. Being fat is also not a disease. Weight can cause health issues but that doesn't mean that someones health issues are necessarily caused by their weight.
It also is very much possible to gain weight without being able to stop it. You can't will yourself out of mental illness, as much as everybody say otherwise...
Also even if someone just is fat and that has caused health issues why shouldn't they get healthcare?? Aren't they part of the same society that everybody is contributing to? What kind of society is it where people can be blamed for their illnesses and told that they are an undue burden?? That's sick.
You have no clue what you're talking about and are just parroting what you got off 4chan or wherever. Sad stuff. Try thinking for yourself for a change.
Whatever helps you sleep at night, champion
You know, aside from that apnoea machine...