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Originally Posted by sluce
I think uneducated teenage alcoholics are bigger drains than obese people. They offer little to world in terms of experience and often live in their own fantasy world where every thing is fine in their imagination. In reality they are pathetic depressed people. Their alcoholism is preventable too.
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Oh, absolutely. Except I would expand this to include alcoholics in their early twenties who still seem like teenagers, presumably because they have killed off so many brain cells in the pursuit of perpetual drunkenness that they are left in a state of retarded mental and intellectual development.
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Originally Posted by Ahti
I think it's ok to say that a group of people are a drain on the health system, but I am getting the message that you want something done about that because they are a drain?
Do you know what that would mean in a society? That would have a serious impact on basic human rights and it wouldn't stop with obese people, if something is done in a society then that guideline of that decision is taken into everything. We would all be modeled and supervised into being the ideal non draining human.
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I agree. As I have said before, I care far more about protecting civil liberties than I care what it might cost me for someone else to be fat.