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Comment by fnordpiglet | Hacker News Reader

Did you read the article?

Obesity is someone's fault. If it weren't, then we would always have had the same obesity rate. The fact that the obesity rate is rising, or has risen in the last 40 years is evidence that something somewhere happened and someone is at fault.

We can likely blame lobbyists for the tragedy that we'll never figure it out because of special interest money in keeping the "someone/something" in the dark.

Obesity has a cause, and people have a responsibility to manage their own health.

But does it really make sense to say obesity is someone's 'fault'? Choices have consequences, but fault requires unambiguous harm.

I disagree, or rather i think you're too absolute. My cousin was obese at 8 (after a car accident this parents started to eat a lot, and as the youngest he followed). He had prediabetes at 12 and that killed his hormonal balance. He now cannot be anything else than obese, even with calorie restrictions.

Your cousin must not have read as much Ayn Rand as OP.

Yes, and I'm worried that they burned mouse poop but didn't burn any mouse urine. From what I understand, what you piss is more dependent on calories than what you poop.

And in general, society's attempt to make things "no fault" seem to always result in more of whatever it is, not less.

Would I love to blame my body fat on anything else? Sure! But in the end it's down to me. Maybe it's harder for me or easier for me, but it's still me.

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