should fatties be banned from eating cakes/burgers in public places as like with smoking?

Question

for health reasons and the burden they cause on the public purse

Answer 1

ignore all these lot i totally agree with you!!!!!

Answer 2

Well, it's not quite the same thing. Smoking in public places is a burden on other people's health, eating a cheese burger isn't. Also you would have to just ban everyone from eathing cakes/burgers, because anyone can have health problems from a poor diet, regardless of their weight/size. For example, diabetes or high blood pressure. HTH : )

Answer 3

No.

First of all, banning them from eating those things in public would do absolutely nothing to address the justification you offer for introducing the ban. It would have no bearing on their health or on the costs. If you can't eat cake in public and you want cake, you'll eat cake in private.

Second of all, and I do so hate to break it to the many people who don't seem to realize this, but not all weight problems are a result of overeating. Are many of them? Sure. But to say weight problems -- and obesity in particular -- is caused by eating too much is an oversimplification. Even if we were to conclude that the vast majority -- say, 90 percent -- of obese persons were obese solely because of overeating, and not due to other factors....a ban on eating cake, etc. in public would be too broad a "solution" for the problem you're trying to combat, ensnaring in its net many people who wouldn't belong there. And while 10 percent might not seem like much, with 2/3 of the entire US population now "overweight," that is a LOT of people.

Smoking bans took off because of the effects of second hand smoke, not because we care about smokers' health, and not because we think the bans will save money (although, if they do, no one would argue that it's not a nice consequence). If you're at a restaurant and someone at the next table is eating cake, it has no effect on your health whatsoever -- regardless of whether that person weighs 90 pounds soaking wet or has to special order her clothes because no store carries a size large enough. Maybe you'll see her eating cake and think "Mmmm. Cake. Maybe I'll have a slice." Or maybe you'll see her eating cake and think "Fat slob. She should be at Golds Gym, not a restaurant! Ugh!" Or maybe you'll think something entirely different. But whatever you think, her eating that cake has nothing to do with you.

People don't really want to impose bans or other restrictions to address other people's health problems and the consequences those problems have on health care or public costs. If they did, we wouldn't be talking just about behavior that we think is "disgusting" or "unattractive." I don't hear a lot of talk about banning cardiac patients from eating certain foods (cardiac disease is the leading cause of death in the US, and you can bet we're all "paying" for it), or banning alcohol consumption (to cut down on accidents -- forget death, do you know how many people each year are disabled as a result?) Etc.

Answer 4

of course not! Some of these overweight people are that way because of medical conditions or as a side effect of medications. Ever see kids who need a kidney transplant? They are often overweight because they are filled up with fluid because of a side effect of their medication. You or anyone else for that matter has no right to judge others, especially when you have no idea why that person is overweight in the first place.

If an overweight person is eating in a restaurant, how's that harming you? If a smoker is smoking in a restaurant, that does harm others. Smoking and eating are two entirely different things.

Answer 5

Smoking in public is a problem because other people are breathing in the smoke. When you are gorging out on burgers and cakes it is not being ingested by anyone but you. In my opinion if you choose to do that then that is your deal. But later on don't try to slap a lawsuit on some fast food joint for your own lack of self control.

Answer 6

That's mean! Sure they might need to go on a diet, but isn't that mean? I mean they can't help it if they have to eat. Some people calm down by eating, others smoking :-( and some others, drawing ect. Maybe they should just make smaller burgers or something
Seriously give them a break. Im sure glad i am not fat, being bullied by you people.

Answer 7

Like smokers, there will always be somewhere that we can eat; after all, unless the cow goes extinct, as with tobacco, we're gonna eat. At 6'2" I don't look particularly fat, but I shan't be remoresful in my delight of a burger bigger than a steering wheel... and like the smoking I once did, if I care to do it, I'll just be polite about it.

I will say this though: if you come wagging your finger at me, don't expect me NOT to lace it with ketchup and try biting you.

Much Love,

Jaime

Answer 8

No fatties should just be banned from public

Answer 9

If everyone with unhealthy bad habits is banned from doing it in public there would be no-one on the streets.

Answer 10

Right after you are banned from breathing the same air as human beings because you definitely are from another species unknown to man and definitely not loved by woman.

Answer 11

If someone chooses to eat themselves into a blimp then that it only putting themselves at risk. Their action does not have any adverse affect on your health. Unlike smoking cigarettes, which 2nd hand smoke is putting others health at risk. If your choices only affect you, then no one should care. It is when your choices also affect someone else that others should be concerned.