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borski10/12/20241 replyview on HN

It’s your assumption that 90%+ of people don’t do this that is the issue.

People seem to think that once these drugs became popular, suddenly obese people around the world awoke from a deep slumber, like zombies, and decided to see a doctor for the first time in their lives about their weight.

Please. These people are walking into doctor’s office having given up hope because most of them have, to one extent or another, tried everything.

Our society does not make it pleasant to be obese, no matter how you feel about body positivity or anything else.

The implication that obese people have never considered or tried eating less, working out more, etc., is in and of itself the problem. It implies laziness and imbues negative morality, when the reality is that most people who are obese know it, hate it, and have tried most of their lives to overcome it, unsuccessfully.

So now that there’s a medication that can help kickstart their creation of new habits for the first time in their lives, I don’t see how that is a bad thing.


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ak_11110/12/2024

Where did I make assumption that majority of obesity drug users don’t put this effort? I was more saying majority of those who try what the poster tried end up not needing the drug. These two statements are very different and it is a common logical fallacy to conflate them.

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