CharlieBob wrote:It is all well and good to say that people can look however they want and that we should not judge them. But then you see the cost these people are too society when the consequences of their lifestyle come home to roost. I mean Jesus, the complications from uncontrolled type 2 diabetes alone include neuropathy (chronic pain meds), delayed wound healing (limb amputation), kidney failure (dyalysis), retinopathy (blindness), vascular disease (stroke, heart attack, PAD). These fat fucks sure as shit are not paying for this, medicaid, medicare, and social security/disability are paying for them... Or in other words tax payers. So if they want to be fat, fine, but until they pay for the resulting costs of that choice i will judge them all I damn want.
Similar questions have been raised with other health and lifestyle issues, and if you take the bait you are opening the whole pandora box of shit. This is the prime argument of anti-smoking crusaders. However several robust financial reviews have shown that smokers are cheaper for the society as a whole than non-smokers, or at least not a burden compared. Mostly because they die about ten years earlier than non-smokers and don't drag social security, aged benefits and old age related medical expenses.
Financial analysis of obesity related complications is very complicated and probably impossible. Sure, obesity, type 2 diabetes can lead to complications, though what you listed is typical for type 1 disease. Somehow everyone forgets how "fat fucks" become fat: from food, which is not free. Every burger, packet of chips and bottle of coke carries tax, and so do collateral transactions of food industry, from advertising to transportation and packaging, which goes to the pockets of the government. In other words, the fatties have paid for their medical care many times over in the decades they have been buying food.