Is there a moral defence for kidnapping obese people, imprisoning them in a pleasant room with all facilities?

Question

......and putting them on a healthy diet. Their families would be informed their OK and all bills etc would be paid.

When slim, they would be released.

Thoughts?

PS. Not going to do it. Its the ethics Im asking about. Is the infringement of their human rights worse than the clear early death they face?

Answer 1

The good news is that extra fat around the waist is reversable.People with heavy concentrations of fat between their ears are less easily dealt with.
Your idea is lame and discriminatory. It also implies that all those who are overweight don't have healthy eating habits.The truth is that there are many different causes for people being overweight, and your simplistic approach to fixing the problem doesn't adress that at all.
Starving people with hypo-thyroidism, food addictions, or handicaps that prevent excercise to attain your goal is a waste of time because you wouldn't be able to get permanent results.
While these people are imprisoned why not force them at gunpoint to run several hours a day on a gigantic treadmill to generate electricity that can be sold to pay for their room and board? That would stop the radical elements demanding that all fat people be put to death because it's too expensive to keep them.

Answer 2

Nope, no moral defence. You already know the act to be wrong. The infringement is worse because the person has chosen the lifestyle that is destroying them quickly. One could argue that we force drug addicts to quit their ways but obesity generally only hurts the obese person whera as junkies tend to steal and commit other crimes in the throws of their addiction a fat person isn't going to hold up a 7/11 for doughnut money. It's a pity they don't look for uses for human fat because if there was a high value use for the fat the obese could get it sucked off their bodies at a profit. As is though they only have their early deaths to look forward to as well as some good eating before they go.

Answer 3

Why does some people assume, that just because your obese, its due to overeating. I was poor growing up and the food mom could afford was potatoes, beans, pasta, all starch stuff. We could only afford can vegetables, fresh vegetable were too expensive and would spoil faster. Same way with fruits. All has added sugars, salts and junk. When you are poor you eat what is affordable, not necessarily the healthiest of stuff. There is also hyperthyroidism, if you can't afford the medication for this you get big. If you have a disease like bells palsy, you have to take steroids, you gain a lot of weight with this. Before you "morally" do anything, be aware of facts.

Answer 4

No there is no moral defense for that... thats the craziest idea i have ever heard.

I admit obesity is a problem in the US, and i personally find obesity kinda disgusting, but its not my right to tell others how to live their lives or try and shape it. Besides it doesnt really affect me anyways, as long as my kid and wife and myself are healthy, everyone else can be fat all they want

so no i cant imagine any logical excuse to justify that idea

Answer 5

Are you serious? The suggestion itself is morally reprehensible, not to mention illegal!. Obesity can be defined as a disease,and,as such must be treated medically.
The factors which lead to obesity are genetic,phycological,and physical,each of which must be addressed to relieve the symtoms. Would you kidnap and confine an individual who suffers from cancer? I think not.

Answer 6

No there is no defense and of course it is an infringement of their human rights. We lock up people who commit crimes after due process to establish facts. Locking people up because we judge their habits to not be in their best interest is laughable, but not defensible.

Answer 7

I have been battling with my weight for years, I would love for someone to come along and be able to make me slim again, if only it were as easy as that