Why do leftists insist that fat people aren't responsible for being fat, it's "genetics" or "mental illness"?

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Never saw a leftist argue that. Maybe you're, again, conflating us with liberals. What you would definitely find with leftists however is us pointing towards how socioeconomic factors heavily enable and sometimes even force people into obesity.

Dude doesn't look like it but he is close to 70 years old. Every last drop of testosterone has already left his bode, by now he is surviving on daily injections of pure communist ideology.

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I don't know, but I fucking despise people with glasses. I feel like all people with glasses need to be forced into work camps and turned away from healthcare. Let them die at 25, they're pretentious, physically defective pieces of shit. Even if you have deteriorating vision, your vision will not deteriorate more if you don't wear glasses and use traditional Khmer remedies, which is what they don't do.

The universe is macroscopically deterministic. Nobody has free will, and the only thing that can be blamed for anything is the universe itself.
Now stop looking for people to blame and start looking for solutions. You won't though, because you don't have free will.

This is why most people won't support the far left.
Always looking for whiny excuses to not accept personal responsibility, it's always "you have no free will, external forces are responsible for everything".

So why do people have so much less "personal responsibility" than 50 years ago? Surely there are no broad societal-level forces at work which demand a public response!

Don't get me wrong, diet and exercise are good things, but you can't chalk everything up to free will.

Fat people are gross. Most are just lazy and pathetic

You are literally saying that people who are stupid enough to eat huge amounts of fast food, junk food, don't exercise are somehow not responsible for ending up obese, morbidly obese.
That's fucking stupid.
It's like saying if I never study, yet I blame capitalism for failing university.

How is this any different from endorsing capitalism on the basis that people who do not succeed are inferior because the lack the intelligence to compete? It is their responsibility to deal with the source of their problems, but this doesn't mean they are less than human for having those problems to begin with.

You are allowed to dislike someone without dehumanizing them.

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If I may interject, for what purporse are we fetishising 'personal responsibility' as some kind of a societal good or goal? There is no point in fantasies about some kind of an 'ideal' way to reach a goal - not using societal mechanisms, even within capitalism such as a sugar tax etc to cause positive effect in the community is stupid and seeped in ideology over practicality.
This is the equivalent of abstinence-only sex education. You can feel superior to stupid teen mums as much as you like but you'll still have to deal with them in your society. You can of course just remove social services that these people will peruse, to make them suffer for their stupidity, but that's just being spiteful and destructive for ideological reasons.

Your post simply continues the idea that others noted, which is your apparent belief that people have no duty to take responsibility for their own choices and actions, as if everyone is a victim with no agency or choice. Yet I suspect if someone wronged you you'd be less than forgiving, since their actions clearly didn't results from their choices.

I can't think of the last time some lardass ate enough food to magically give someone else a heart attack.
Besides, plenty of people commit crimes due to unchecked mental illnesses. Yes, their behavior is unacceptable, but that doesn't mean they are fully in control of it. People are imperfect organic constructs like every other living thing.

You are basically saying we should make judgments based on personal feelings of resentment and not try to be as objective as possible. Everyone thinks fat people are nasty, including them.

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Individualism, social atomism, and personal responsibility is the professed theology of liberalism. That's why we hate it.

Fat people are produced by a system.

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I doubt those are "leftists". Obese people are clearly a metaphor for the senseless hyper-growth of late capitalism. It has nothing to with "genetics" or "mental illness", although some would argue that the cancerous stage of capitalism we're in truly is mental.

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We don't. You're attacking a strawman.