A Case For Shaming Obese People, Tastefully

[jesskat]

One bioethicist's modest proposal to combat obesity through socially motivated self-hatred

People don't hate being fat enough, basically, according to Hastings Center bioethicist Daniel Callahan. In an editorial published in the Hastings Center Report, he argues that nothing -- not diets, drugs, sugeries, nor appeals to our health -- is working,

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[moonshaz]

People who are overweight, he contends, remain hopelessly unaware of their plight.

*falls over dead at the sheer, unmitigated stupidity of this remark*

[silmaril]

The size of that assumption is causing a disruption in the Earth's gravitational field that I'm pretty sure the gravity research guys in the physics department here can register with their instruments.

(Edited to add: I mean the assumption in the utterly stupid remark.)

[mollywobbles867]

Yeah, because I didn't contemplate slitting my wrists when I was 10 because I was bullied over my weight or anything.

[eyetosky]

Oh Weiner, why'd you have to go and goof up on twitter? I miss you.

Og F*CK that jackass

[mschaos]

like that works

don't even think about the fact that 'diets' don't work 95% of the time and that shaming works so damn well

my mom has been trying that for years and folks know that mom guilt is pretty damn epic

*edited for spelling typo*

[nesmith]

Yeah, pretty sure my dad tried that method for fifteen years. Didn't start working until after he died and I realized I wasn't horrible and lazy.

[poetic_pixie_13]