Free Range Children

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Fuzzy Necromancer
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Re: Free Range Children

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clearspira wrote: Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:14 pm
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Mon Sep 10, 2018 6:48 am
clearspira wrote: Sun Sep 09, 2018 3:17 pm
Worffan101 wrote: Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:30 am
clearspira wrote: Sat Sep 08, 2018 10:39 pm A hundred years ago these boys would have been deep in a trench dodging bullets; now we are too scared to let them out down the street on their own lest they scrape a knee. We have become comfortable, with it fat and lazy, and with it scared of the mundane.
I think that being overweight is a damn sight better than dodging bullets in a trench, given how badly dodging bullets in a trench tends to fuck people up for life.
Being fat fucks you up for life too - your very short, forty years of it.
1. No it doesn't, and there's meta-studies to back that up.
2. Why do you hate fat people so much you'd rather see kids get shot at than be fat?
Oh, so much crap here and so little time. First off, I never said I hate fat people. That is YOU inferring, or more likely, outright lying for reasons perhaps best left to yourself. What I actually implied was that adversity breeds greatness and comfort breeds sloth.
But that aside, i've got to say that ''meta-studies'' sounds an awful lot like ''I've got some bullshit alternate news source I follow''. But please, tell me how your ''meta-study'' disproves what every reputable doctor in the world will tell you about the lifespans of the obese.
Here's a start https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/90705.php

You didn't say it, but you implied that you'd rather have kids get shot at than grow up fat. That seems pretty hateful to me. And sloth and fat don't go hand in hand. There are lots of diligent fat people and lots of lazy, apathetic skinny people.

Again, I'm disturbed by what you said because it sounds like you're nostalgic for the Good Ol' Days of Trench Warfare because you find the current generation soft and weak.
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