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05-11-2007, 04:52 AM
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Do people have the moral obligation to tell people how to eat?
It's accepted that if someone smokes, or drinks to much that it's ok to call someone out and tell them that they're killing themself by doing so. I've wondered for a long time why it's not actualy PC to tell someone that they're eating themself to death. I'm curious why in my mind it's ok to hate on a smoker, or a heavy drinker, but it's not OK to tell someone who eats trash every day that they're doing harm to their body.
Why is it that if you try and tell someone you know that they're eating like crap, and will eventualy eat themself into diabetes/death that you are an a'hole, but it's ok to tell people other things they are doing to harm their health? 
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05-11-2007, 04:55 AM
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Re: Do people have the moral obligation to tell people how to eat?
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It's accepted that if someone smokes, or drinks to much that it's ok to call someone out and tell them that they're killing themself by doing so. [/ QUOTE ] Really? I don't want to hear that [censored].
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05-11-2007, 04:55 AM
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Re: Do people have the moral obligation to tell people how to eat?
I thought you were an ahole if you told random friends any of those things unless it's a straight up intervention. I always assume that they already know they're killing themselves and there's not much my nagging will help.
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05-11-2007, 04:56 AM
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Re: Do people have the moral obligation to tell people how to eat?
I wish people felt the moral obligation to keep their opinions to themselves honestly. If I want to do something that hurts only myself and nobody else, wtf business is it of yours (or anyone's in general)?
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05-11-2007, 05:03 AM
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Re: Do people have the moral obligation to tell people how to eat?
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I wish people felt the moral obligation to keep their opinions to themselves honestly. If I want to do something that hurts only myself and nobody else, wtf business is it of yours (or anyone's in general)? [/ QUOTE ] Yes, because smokers never make me cough by blowing [censored] in my face and we all know drunk drivers never hurt anyone. SpaceAce
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05-11-2007, 05:09 AM
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Re: Do people have the moral obligation to tell people how to eat?
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Yes, because smokers never make me cough by blowing [censored] in my face and we all know drunk drivers never hurt anyone. SpaceAce [/ QUOTE ] And people with crying babies in movie theaters bother me. I cough when people in SUV's drive by and the exhaust goes in my face. In fact people shouldn't be allowed to wear perfume either, since it bothers my sinuses. Also, I'm allergic to pets so nobody ought to be allowed to own pets. Stop being a nit.
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05-11-2007, 05:14 AM
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Re: Do people have the moral obligation to tell people how to eat?
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[ QUOTE ] Yes, because smokers never make me cough by blowing [censored] in my face and we all know drunk drivers never hurt anyone. SpaceAce [/ QUOTE ] And people with crying babies in movie theaters bother me. I cough when people in SUV's drive by and the exhaust goes in my face. In fact people shouldn't be allowed to wear perfume either, since it bothers my sinuses. Also, I'm allergic to pets so nobody ought to be allowed to own pets. Stop being a nit. [/ QUOTE ] You're kidding, right? I do say something when a screaming baby in a movie theater gets out of hand. Screaming babies shouldn't be in movie theaters. Also perfume = drunk driving, huh? Thanks for putting me in my place. SpaceAce
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05-11-2007, 05:21 AM
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Re: Do people have the moral obligation to tell people how to eat?
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You're kidding, right? I do say something when a screaming baby in a movie theater gets out of hand. Screaming babies shouldn't be in movie theaters. Also perfume = drunk driving, huh? Thanks for putting me in my place. SpaceAce [/ QUOTE ] Drunk driving was never part of the OP, you're changing the subject from "things people do that harm themselves" to "serious public dangers". Overeating, drinking, smoking (drunk driving set aside, or maliciously blowing smoke in your face, which is absurd and probably only happened once ever) - these are individual things. You feel a moral obligation to lecture them because it irritates you? My point is that lots of [censored] irritates lots of people, you happen to pick on drinking and smoking because they're popular things to pick on, but it by no means is by virtue of some moral obligation that you're criticizing them.
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05-11-2007, 06:07 AM
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Re: Do people have the moral obligation to tell people how to eat?
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[ QUOTE ] I wish people felt the moral obligation to keep their opinions to themselves honestly. If I want to do something that hurts only myself and nobody else, wtf business is it of yours (or anyone's in general)? [/ QUOTE ] Yes, because smokers never make me cough by blowing [censored] in my face and we all know drunk drivers never hurt anyone. SpaceAce [/ QUOTE ] What's that got to do with anything? Believe it or not a large majority of people who like to drink and get drunk don't drink and drive. That's like saying rape is bad and therefore sex is bad.
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05-11-2007, 06:13 AM
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Re: Do people have the moral obligation to tell people how to eat?
guys, please don't turn this into a drinking/driving thread. There's already a good one of those that was started like 6 months ago.
I'd like this thread to be a debate about how it's PC to call people drug addicts, alcoholics, and smokers, but it's not ok to call out an unhealthy person.
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