Fatness

I was confused by your round one presentation. I looked in the comments and found that you had clarified your argument and am using that to respond to. I hope that is ok, if it is not I would be happy to respond to your round 1 presentation instead. The comment that I am referring to is,"That we should not try to move towards accepting fat people as beautiful. We should not encourage fat people to 'feel comfortable' about their size, as we are trying to do. The mission should be to eradicate fatness not accept and appreciate it. It is a problem and says negative things about people who suffer from it, it is not a 'style' or 'lifestyle' like being a goth or being gay, it is a weakness and a essentially a shameful thing". Before I start presenting my argument I would like to apologize for the rude comments. I think it is good you are expressing your opinion and that there was no reason for them to be disrespectful to you and your argument. I promise I will be civil in this debate and that as long as you treat this debate seriously that I will too. Unless you have a better way of defining fat I will define fat as having 20% or an excess of 20% body fat. According to source 1 69.2% of Americans are overweight. Although people such as body builders who have so much muscle that it technically makes them overweight are included in this set of data, I think that the number of them is not substantial enough to skew the data. And that the majority of these people are overweight due to high fat percentages. I am using this data to justify my claim that America is fat. I am presenting this because some people believe that what is ok is set by the majority. If you believe in that then that means it is ok to be fat. I believe very much in the way of thinking described by this quote by Oliver Holmes, "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins". I take this to mean that one can do whatever one wants as long as it does not negatively effect another. As long as said fat people are not harming you I think they should be free to do what they please. Similarly to you and your smoking. Continuing on the similarity between you and fat people, you mentioned that being fat is a weakness. You then go on to declare that you are just as bad if not worse then someone with an eating disorder or someone with a lazy personality. I take this to mean that you mean are just as bad or worse as a fat person. If this is true then why should society not move towards the acceptance of people who smoke? I am curious to hear your rationale. Why do you smoke? Does your way of life practically force you to? For some fat people that is the case. They have low income, sedentary jobs that leave little time to exercise and little money to buy healthy foods. I'm sure we have all seen the one dollar hamburger and the two dollar salad. Eating is well is proven to be more expensive. For some people they have essentially no way of escaping their lifestyle that makes them fat. Can you honestly say the same for people who smoke? I think it is prudent to leave my first round argument at that. I look forward to see your response. It seems that this debate was set up without thinking it through completely. If that is the case and you do not wish to continue I think that is perfectly exceptable. Unlike others I think it is easy to make mistakes when creating debates and think that it is better to stop and start again rather than continue digging oneself into a hole. If you would like to forfeit the debate I think that would not be dishonorable. Whatever you decide to do I wish you luck and look forward to seeing your decision. Sources: 1 http://www.cdc.gov...