Re: The 70 stone man!
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:39 pm
I think he should get the treatment, although with obesity being so widespread in today's society we need to fight the problem really hard (like cracking down on parents who are irresponsible when feeding their kids).
Yes, people will say his weight problem is his own doing, but we've been treating lung cancer and other smoking related diseases for decades, as we have done in treating drinking related problems, which were all their own doing; we give speeders in cars life-saving emergency treatment even though they were the ones driving dangerously; we spend lots of money rescuing people off mountains who took it upon themselves to climb the peaks in bad weather; we rescue people from the sea who don't heed warnings about rip tides, etc.
If you're going to deny people treatment for obesity problems where do we draw the line and who decides?
Yes, people will say his weight problem is his own doing, but we've been treating lung cancer and other smoking related diseases for decades, as we have done in treating drinking related problems, which were all their own doing; we give speeders in cars life-saving emergency treatment even though they were the ones driving dangerously; we spend lots of money rescuing people off mountains who took it upon themselves to climb the peaks in bad weather; we rescue people from the sea who don't heed warnings about rip tides, etc.
If you're going to deny people treatment for obesity problems where do we draw the line and who decides?