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Lynne, you're slipping into emotion and further from logic. Your reference to men and women having different costs is one example, since by your previously stated rationale of states v. behavior you are comparing apples and orange. Gender is a state. No one disputes that. You assert obesity is also a state. Many dispute that. To mix the fruit metaphor further, now you're just cherry-picking. FWIW, I have friends and acquaintences who are fat or maybe even obese. What I posted on m-net applies here: I don't mind fat people at all, as long as they can pull their weight. But they don't get a free pass anymore than my alcoholic friends. I think you have failed to make your case that obesity is state and not a result of behavior. Certainly it is for some, and perhaps even you. But you haven't made a convincing case that is true for even a bare majority of overweight or obese people. And BTW, I don't oppose the anti-discrimination laws you mentioned. My "carb tax" would apply to people of all weights.
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