Quote:
Originally Posted by RedChariot
Surely you don't mean this. How unkind. If someone gets Cancer should we in the medical field say well he didn't do everything he should have done in life so lets just toss him aside. Sometimes everything is not in our control. We are human. Not perfect. Please don't judge that obese person until you have gone through their life experience. Same for the alcholic and drug addicted. The obese are becoming the current day leper. Sad.
|
Now it's getting somewhat out of context. I was responding to someone who said something to the effect that "they don't care". You should go back and read it. But it's fairly obvious that they will care when they show up at the ER. Right? Therefor, the fact of them not caring about eating junk and gaining too much weight, was just short sighted. That means the person (whoever it was) who posted to tell me that they don't care, is thoughtlessly supporting shortsighted people.
Believe me, the people who say they don't care are not going to take my advice. They WILL call 911 and they WILL run up health care costs for everyone. If people don't respect themselves, how do they expect to get respect from others?
I have nothing against those who care. In high school and beyond my best friend was obese. He was a great person and very intelligent. But his obese mother spoiled him by giving him everything he wanted. He drove a new Mercedes Benz to high school. She showed him how to make milk shakes and told him he could have one anytime he wanted. By the time he realized that being obese wasn't a good thing, it was too late. He spent the rest of his life fighting his weight problem. If I had known then what I know now, I might have been able to help him lose weight and keep it off for good. But I didn't have a clue about it back then.
I felt lucky to have him as a friend. For one thing, he was a fun person to be around and had loads of good qualities. And there's one thing I'll never forget: He told me, "don't ever gain weight because once you gain it, it's very difficult to lose".
I respected him; but I don't have much respect for those who say "they don't care". Maybe what the poster really meant was "I don't care".