"Obesity is a disease. It is not a decision"- bulletin board caption
I passed by this bulletin board the other day and it caught my eye. I asked myself the question and the first thought that came to me is hat this is not true.
I could not think of a single person who was overweight that I have been around and somewhat familiar with their lifestyle, that this statement held true. In all cases it was usually poor dietary choices that eventually lead to being obese. All the bad choices coupled with decision not to get exercise and it leads to quickly getting obese.
I realize that there exist people who make great choices and exercise but their systems do not respond. But those folks would be an aberration to the norm that most of us would find.
The bigger issue for me was whether something that is "politically" correct could be misleading and false. No one want a large segment of the population pissed off at them because you are telling them that they are making poor decisions and not disease.
Today's question:
"Do you believe that some politically correct and accepted statements could be false?"
I passed by this bulletin board the other day and it caught my eye. I asked myself the question and the first thought that came to me is hat this is not true.
I could not think of a single person who was overweight that I have been around and somewhat familiar with their lifestyle, that this statement held true. In all cases it was usually poor dietary choices that eventually lead to being obese. All the bad choices coupled with decision not to get exercise and it leads to quickly getting obese.
I realize that there exist people who make great choices and exercise but their systems do not respond. But those folks would be an aberration to the norm that most of us would find.
The bigger issue for me was whether something that is "politically" correct could be misleading and false. No one want a large segment of the population pissed off at them because you are telling them that they are making poor decisions and not disease.
Today's question:
"Do you believe that some politically correct and accepted statements could be false?"
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