Should fat people be forced to get a lap band procedure?

[killthesunshine]

i'm used to winning, i've never lost

 

[Ghost of Cutten]

Quote from OPTIONAL777:



So why do we allow people to abuse food which harms not only them but their family and society.

How does someone being fat harm me? Assuming they don't sit on me or get stuck in a sinking lifeboat with me, I don't see the beef.

 

[OPTIONAL777]

Try thinking through the drink before you post...

Medical bills of needlessly obese people cost you, productivity loss, etc.

Quote from Ghost of Cutten:

How does someone being fat harm me? Assuming they don't sit on me or get stuck in a sinking lifeboat with me, I don't see the beef.

 

[OPTIONAL777]

Quote from killthesunshine in this thread directed to Mom0/PH0x:

"you can't keep up, you know it i know it 777 knows it"

Quote later on in this thread from Mom0/PH0x to killthesunshine:

"i never disagreed with anything you have submitted... i never said you were wrong..."

So I guess killthesunshine was right in his submission above.

 

[Ricter]

It occurs to me that if you control their appetites, you reduce food sales. That has to be figured into your societal ROI.

 

[Ghost of Cutten]

Quote from OPTIONAL777:

Try thinking through the drink before you post...

Medical bills of needlessly obese people cost you, productivity loss, etc.

I don't drink alcohol.

I don't pay other people's medical bills. I don't pay fat people to produce anything where being fat is a disadvantage.

If it wasn't for fat people, there'd be no bbws, sumo wrestling, fat jokes, and half as many great comedians. The world would be a poorer and more boring place.

 

[OPTIONAL777]

You don't pay for non productive workers?

You don't pay taxes?

Cutten must be rolling over in his virtual grave at the stupidity of those who think people who get ill due to morbid obesity doesn't cost them personally...

Quote from Ghost of Cutten:

I don't drink alcohol.

I don't pay other people's medical bills. I don't pay fat people to produce anything where being fat is a disadvantage.

If it wasn't for fat people, there'd be no bbws, sumo wrestling, fat jokes, and half as many great comedians. The world would be a poorer and more boring place.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from OPTIONAL777:

You don't pay for non productive workers?

You don't pay taxes?

So tell us again why we need more taxes.

 

[Ghost of Cutten]

Quote from OPTIONAL777:

You don't pay for non productive workers?

You don't pay taxes?

It's nice moving to a tax haven, thanks for asking.

I agree being fat is stupid. But being a knee-jerk authoritarian is much worse. Fat people mostly harm themselves, the little hitler class harm everyone.

 

[Rearden Metal]

Quote from OPTIONAL777:

It is an established fact that extreme obesity leads to health problems in most people, which costs the tax payers and those paying for private insurance billions of dollars...

We don't allow public drunkenness, we throw people in jail for driving drunk, we throw drug addicts in jail...

So why do we allow people to abuse food which harms not only them but their family and society.

Most really obese people don't want to be that way, but they are unable to help themselves.

Why not mandate lap band surgery to reduce their eating capacity?

Make it law...it will help them help themselves, it will lower the health care bill for them and society in the long run, they will become more productive and achieve a higher self esteem, etc.

Looks like a win, win, win situation...

What does it matter if the government makes them healthy and happy against their will?

For those who are ignorant on what a lap band procedure is:

http://www.obesitylapbandsurgery.com/tecmain.html

You're a fucking communist.