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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Hmmm. How come we can make judgements about how obese people became the way they are (you are bang on with yours I think) but it is assumed that handicapped people are that way through no fault of their own?
There are a lot of disabled people out there that don't have any better excuse than the obese people.
Comments not directed at you personally Daradon, but the notion that obese people are disabled of their own actions and other disabled folks are just unlucky souls.
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Apples and oranges. Most medically recognized handicaps are born that way, the progression of a genetic deficiency, or result of an isolated wrong place/wrong time event. The control is frequently external and the results are irreversible.
Obesity takes years to develope, and is primarily the summation of
repeated lifestyle choices despite known consequences. Furthermore, once obese, much of their predicament is actually reversible, well before it reaches endstage. Patients often look for external factors (medication side effects, hormone problems, mental issues..etc) as an excuse for their problem, rather than accepting responsibility for their situation. Can those external factors play a role? Rarely, and even if so, you still play the biggest role with your own behaviour, and this is what gets ignored. The control is there for the taking, both in terms of prevention and redemption.