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[–]SaltyTexan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

People can control lots of things.

Which completely contradicts what you said prior. So either people can control what they do or they can't. I'm going to need you to pick a struggle. Like I said and I will say it again, aside from having a medical condition there is no reason other than laziness that makes people fat. You can't even tell me I'm wrong because deep down you know I'm right. My guess is that you are making excuses because you may be a bit over weight yourself, and hearing someone say this is hard for you. I get it. But it doesn't change the fact that I'm right.

Taking care of yourself isn't a bad thing. You comparing random things that has zero to do with that our conversation was about isn't helping your cause, you pointing out that I am a black gay female has nothing to do with the fact that people who don't have a medical condition and are overweight are lazy. Are you seriously going to still defend that they are not being lazy? What causes one to be overweight? Lack of exercise and bad eating habits. You can be poor and still not eat garbage. You can be stressed out and still not eat a box of damn doughnuts. Those are CHOICES and people need to held accountable for the choices they make in their lives.

Someone can make a choice to rob a store, and if they get arrested are you going to blame their circumstances or are you going to blame the person who made the choice to rob the store in the first place. That isn't looking at the world in a regressive way at all, that is holding people accountable for their actions. Accountability is something a lot of people lack these days.

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You just completely ignored my point.

Like I said and I will say it again, there are only 24 hours in the day. For any given hour, you can spend it jogging; you can spend it studying; you can spend it arguing with strangers on the Internet; you can spend it raising a family.

Which means that some people are thin; some people have Ph.D.s; some people have a lot of karma points; some people have four children.

So the question is: you've got four people. One of them is thin and fit and works at a grocery store. One of them is a fat lawyer. One of them is a fat mother of four. One of them is average-sized and spends hours a day arguing on the Internet.

You seem to take it for granted that the two lazy pieces of shit are the lawyer and the mother. I don't find that to be particularly self-evident. I think maybe those two are the least lazy ones.

[–]SaltyTexan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I didn't ignore your "point" you just didn't like my answer and are desperately trying to defend and make excuses on why you're overweight.

I work for a lot of lawyers and yes most of them are lazy. They are also not really fat, and some are but those ones snack all day long. I see them doing it.

My point is and is backed by medical facts, not opinions or feelings, is that unless you have a medical condition that causes you to gain weight, there is no reason why you should be fat unless you're lazy.

I've seen plenty of people with 4+ kids who are lazy. I've seen plenty of people with 1 kid who are not. I've seen plenty of people who work at a grocery store who are lazy, and plenty that are not. The only one ignoring anything is you, ignoring facts.