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Originally Posted by Leonardo Mystic
Well, take your dieting regime elsewhere. It's not welcomed.
Mods, can we please lock this topic now?
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Sensitive much?
But you know, I partly agree with you: the attitude that people are in fact responsible for their own actions and the consequences thereof, a belief I strongly cling to? It's NOT welcome much anymore, which is a damn shame. I guess it's not Kevin Smith's fault he's got a weight problem, he just fell into a deep depression after his last few flicks bombed, eh? Face it, the guy just loves attention and sympathy.
At least when my old man had his first of several heart attacks, when he was rolling around on the ground holding his chest, he knew who to blame: himself, for waiting until he was almost dead before taking his health seriously. Y'know how traumatizing that is for an 11 year old to watch? Can anyone even contemplate how for over 15 years since his first heart surgery, he's had to get fluid drained from his lungs every so often, had several more surgeries, stents put in to open his valves, and has walked around with a defibrillator implanted into his chest for the past 6 years?
It's called, "what happens when people don't take care of themselves".
It's no different from any other self-inflicted affliction like smoking or alcoholism or drug abuse; they all begin and end with the individual. It's not my problem if people don't take their health seriously, but if you'd seen what I've seen, and gone to half as many funerals of people that died decades too soon from a variety of self-afflicted problems, maybe you'd try to understand my attitude a bit. Being hypersensitive, and/or placating hypersensitive people, does no one any good.
But by all means, this thread can die. And next time someone else gets their feelings hurt by common sense, we'll lock that one, too, and then we'll keep going until we all agree on everything. Deal?
Love you.