What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?

[Edwardo Piet]

The only problem with this is that with the NHS there's limited resources.
The more people clogging up hospitals with heart conditions, knee surgery, diabetes, the need for gastric hands or bypasses and so on, the worse it is for everyone else.

So if you're paying for your own health care then I agree that what you're doing is only harmful to you and possibly your family.

But with the NHS being involved I think Isis has a good point about tax although the amounts seem a bit extreme.

Well junk food being taxed because it causes people to become obese and that causes them illnesses they wouldn't otherwise have and they clog up the hospitals when there's limited room space and time...

...that's actually an interesting argument. I can go with that. Still, eating around people doesn't harm people like smoking around people. So whilst I can actually go with that interesting argument and in that case I do think that junk food should be taxed (I didn't factor that in, thanks for that) I do think it would be ridiculous to ban junk food from pubs when eating junk food in pubs doesn't harm other people like smoking in pubs does. I think when smokers smoke around non-smokers without their consent that is very morally wrong. I don't think eating junk food around people is morally wrong at all.

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Your rights and privileges to be fat stop where my nose starts.

I agree. And I feel the same way about smoking.

And when people smoke it does get up other people's noses. If people want to slowly poison themselves and other people then they should hang around with other people who do it.

Imagine if there was a food that was entirely non-nutritious and poisonous and if consumed for long periods caused bowl damage, cancer and premature birth in pregnant women... now imagine if it was highly addictive and young people encouraged each other to do it because it was 'cool'. Imagine if it was impossible to consume the food without being driven into an uncontrollable urge to shove the same poisonous non-nutritious food town the throats of other people who don't want to eat that poisonous food. How fucked up would that food be? That is what smoking is like.