4-year-old girl trolls herself on Facebook, ends up in jail for it
02-11-2014, 02:26 PM
Quote: (02-10-2014 06:47 PM)Aliblahba Wrote:
For the record, I'm not a fat hater, or prejudice, ect ect.
However, after spending years in close quarters with obese employees, compared to the military, I have seen a direct correlation of obesity and mental health.
I'll pm IKE so he can chime in on the science of i
The reason I can overcharge with impunity in the world of mental health ( just kidding) is that every case, even at different points in a person's lifespan is different.
There's a lot of reasons people become fat, for me when I put on about twenty pounds of lard I was working in a remote place and drank too much. When you're over 40, most people can't get away with that. The causal chain for me was (need for money-->shitty workplace-->depression-->boozing-->fat.)
Some who gets huge, morbidly obese, I don't really know the science because I deal with the psychological aspects of mental health, and I don't specialize in weight management but is it seems like many severe cases of illness there are a sort of "perfect storm" of negative factors; some of which are genetically inherited, some learned early, and others learned later.
For instance a person could:
1) Have grown up in family/culture that doesn't value exercise/looking decent
2) Have a tendency to mood disorder so they get too depressed to exercise (this is what happened to me in the above remote job)
3) Not be smart or educated about diet and what are the things that are bad.
4) Have an injury which keeps them from exercising at all for a while.
5) Have a fucked up neurological satiety mechanism so when they eat it doesn't make them feel satisfied ( probably rarer than other causes)
Then, once they are significantly overweight I'm guessing it becomes a self-sustaining thing. When I've been maybe 35 or 40 pounds overweight I've had moments where I thought "fuck it, it's too much weight to lose, I'll just let myself be fat" -- think if you were 100 lbs overweight, ever looking presentable again might seem so hopeless you'd just think in terms of minimization of the humiliation.
Then, again, there are subcultures where it's pretty acceptable to be even huge.
"They're just big" is the kind of social justification that must happen with the group (family or subculture) when you see a family of Walmart Whales waddling.
They can't see the connection between behavior and results, I see the same thing with criminals, it's basically just being dumb and not being able to make of mental map of actions and what they lead to.
All of us fail to make perfect causality maps of our world, it's just the dumber we are, in combination with the luck elements in the environment, the worse the outcomes.
Subjectively, I too feel disgust at very fat people, but as with criminals I don't really take a moral view any more. I've seen so many sick murdering fucks I would have lost my mind if I actually thought I was in the presence of evil.
I don't really believe in evil as an living substantive thing, but some people are so sick they might as well be.
The rule from the 48(?) rules of power: Avoid unfortunate people seems to apply here.
I avoid unfortunate people, unless I am getting paid to be around them, and I still minimize it.