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Your article summarizes it well. It highlights the main point I am making:

Group 1) Those who don’t feel bad or wrong about it. These people are assholes. Group 2) Those who feel terrible and self-loathing about it. These people have problems.

Group 1 is 98% of the population. This is why we perceive people who are late as [from impolite to assholes]

Group 2 suffers because of that.

Thus my analogy with weight: 98% of people eat like starving hippos and then claim all kind of bullshit about how they are biologically|mentally|genetically|any-other-y impacted and that being fat is not their fault. And "no fat shaming because we are so special". Yes - aggressive fat shaming so that you put your shit together and stop being a (now or future) problem for the population.

The remaining 2% suffers because of that.

I mentioned this a few times in my comments

--- extra story --- I also remember a friend of mine who was overweight and had two medical conditions (ans possibly a mild psychological one) which made him what he was. I saw him fighting back - by eating healthy, moving a lot (I was lightly sparring kung-fu with him) and I was super proud. There are some happy ends - he is still far from being a model but he met a super girl (thin and sporty by the way) who realized after going past the physical aspect that he was a super guy. Their children (now teens) tease him about that.



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