(June 4, 2017 at 6:45 am)Isis Wrote: The thing that bothers me is smokers are taxed up to their fucking eyeballs on tobacco products, while fat people are not when it comes to unhealthy food. Tax the hell out of them. I am sick and tired of smoking being socially unacceptable while being obese is.
A can of Coca Cola should cost £10 and a big sharing size bag of crisps should cost £25. That will teach them, and while we are it, they should be denied certain operations on the NHS until they stop their junk food habit.
This kind of attitude and false comparison is what makes a little bit of fat acceptance a good thing. There's nothing wrong with a person choosing to buy and eat junk food... they're not harming anyone else. People should be allowed to eat what they want... as long as they're not encouraging others to be obese.
And eating junk food around people doesn't damage their body like smoking around people does. I love junk food and I'm not obese and I don't encourage people to be obese. I eat what I want and other people eat what they want. And they can eat what they want around me... and I can eat what I want around them. And we don't shove our food in each other's mouths like smokers shove their smoke down non-smoker's lungs. And even junk food is still a food. It has a purpose... it stops people going hungry even if it's the least healthy food. Smoke on the other hand... is just an addictive poison. Zero nourishment. And the fact nicotine is put into it and all that does is make people addicted... is fucked up. Considering no one would get hooked on cigarettes in the first place without the nicotine.
