• nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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        21 hours ago

        May I ask why? To me it’s just a more fatphobic way of saying “absurdly rich people”.

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          17 hours ago

          Obesity is a perfectly valid technical term.

          While medical obesity is typically outside the control of those affected, perpetuating financial obesity is absolutely within the control and responsibility of the morbidly wealthy.

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            17 hours ago

            It’s not that “obesity” itself is fat-phobic, is the need to refer to weight when talking about something completely unrelated to make it sound more evil. I could think of the word “gluttony” to better refer to this, for example

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              Evil no, but undesirable like a medical condition. I do think there are a lot of parallels. Shouldn’t use it as a scare

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                15 hours ago

                This comment thread made want to eat myself to death.

                I’m so tired of this. Why are we acting like some people are just born Obese? The Obese are not a protected class. Mentioning obesity in a negative context is not hate speech.

                In fact I say normalize fat shaming. Fuck it. Obesity costs the US healthcare system $150B/yr as a conservative estimate. Donate that, you *** ****.

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                  There is more to it than personal moral failing, though. There’s a reason obesity is more prevalent in some countries than in others. It’s not fair to fully blame people who become obese. You can’t shame people into a healthy diet. It just makes you a dick

                  Not going to continue this conversation. This is not a debate. Nobody is promoting obesity, just basic decency towards people who are obese. Don’t be a dick.

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          14 hours ago

          Yes im fatphobic, im scared of being so fat i get sick and die. That’s perfectly healthy just like being scared of smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol.

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            14 hours ago

            In the way that “xenophobia” means rather hatred than fear of outsiders, the same applies to the word “fatphobia”. It is desirable to look for better health outcomes for yourself, it is not good to judge and discriminate other people based on their weight.