Telling fat people to eat less is a bit different from cutting off disability to anyone who is obese, which was the suggestion.
>Even genuine starvation is not fatal for fat people, assuming they consume a few vitamins and essential nutrients that are very easily obtainable.
Starvation diets for weight loss are rare, but even among the few well documented, managed examples there have been multiple deaths. You're not correct here. A 27 year old in otherwise good health, supervised by doctors might be OK. A 55 year old with heart disease that's bad enough to qualify for disability probably won't be.
> I'm not advocating starvation diets, merely responding in kind to the ludicrous suggestion that not subsidizing obesity is tantamount to forced starvation.
How about you say what you mean then instead of arguing that starvation diets can't kill people?
>Even genuine starvation is not fatal for fat people, assuming they consume a few vitamins and essential nutrients that are very easily obtainable.
Starvation diets for weight loss are rare, but even among the few well documented, managed examples there have been multiple deaths. You're not correct here. A 27 year old in otherwise good health, supervised by doctors might be OK. A 55 year old with heart disease that's bad enough to qualify for disability probably won't be.
> I'm not advocating starvation diets, merely responding in kind to the ludicrous suggestion that not subsidizing obesity is tantamount to forced starvation.
How about you say what you mean then instead of arguing that starvation diets can't kill people?