Re: Fat People

Palindr?me wrote:
Martin Davies wrote:
Bryan Evans wrote:

Tony Blair said this week that obese people were a burden on society
that could no longer be tolerated (at first I thought he was talking
about John Prescott). The main, even only, pleasure some people have
is derived from their eating. In these affluent times can it be
right for our government to determine how much people may be
allowed to eat?


Its not how much - its whether for that person its too much.
You could eat half of what I do, and put on weight. Or could eat
half again as much as me and lose weight faster than I do.

Few would argue that obesity hasn't become a problem over recent
decades - when I was a kid, you might see a fat kid occasionally but
we were usually pretty active.
Nowadays far more obese people, and obese kids.

So should the government say something about obesity? Or should they
just ignore it, and hope obese people will one day decide to do
something themselves?

I have no worries about them /saying/ things. But what if they take it
further?

The demand for medical treatment can never be satisfied and so it has
to be rationed - should that rationing be based on clinical need or
judgments, particularly moral judgements, about the degree of
indiviual culpability?

To me, it should always be about clinical need. Its wasteful of resources
perhaps, but good for the people treated.
There are many places where clinical need isn't used - and people die from
what we'd consider minor problems.

However, with rising demand, limited resources, targets, budgets and so on -
not to mention administrators who probably don't know much about patient
treatment (not part of the job requirement), it would be easy for certain
groups to be denied treatment.
More than a couple of times in the past decade I've heard about limiting
resource allocation for the elderly. Start with one group, and eventually
stop spending on all specialist groups.
It can happen.

Martin <><


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