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>But I don't want to pay for an obese persons knee surgery.

Yeah, this is lack of empathy (and understanding of the reasons behind obesity).

As a fat guy I can say for certain the reason is eating too much.

Why do you eat too much? Obesity is almost always a mental health problem exacerbated by a sugar problem.

I cooked as a job for a while before I moved to software dev and I just enjoy food more than being thin. The effort isn't worth it to me.

Then why have we seen such a rapid onset of obesity and why does obesity spread like a disease?

Why is it any more of a mental health problem than smoking?

Foods have more calories per serving than previously and people are less active than they used to be.

Way less fat people in Singapore.. So that helps, I guess.

Because every auntie is happy to tell you you are getting fat.

You have the responsibility in Singapore to conform to societies expectations.

It's a very different mentality than we have in the US.