Since I'm not one of the folks that never gains a pound and fights daily to maintain my weight at a level some what close to what I should weigh for my height, I really have an issue with people that think they should have the right to sue a company because THEY don't have the common sense to push away from the table. While I understand that family history, DNA and some health issues or diseases may have some part of a persons predisposition to becoming obese, it has nothing to do with decision that you make as a person to put that next bite in your mouth or your failure to exercise.
Before my sisters untimely death this past June at the age of 54, obesity being one of the reasons she died. Add to that the 30 or forty cigarettes she smoked every day even when she had been told a million times she was adding nails to her coffin by continuing to smoke, while she knew she had COPD and wore her oxygen at night to breathe. Her failure to control her weight, which at the time of her death, was a massive 411 lbs. Weigh control and quiting smoking is a battle that is ongoing for me and I will never surrender.
I cannot and will not make excuses for her or the other members of my family that suffer from obesity as there are none to make. I was one of many in my family that tried to encourage her to control her habits to no avail and subsequently watched her die while attached to life support after she failed to recover from routine surgery.
I'm watching her entire family suffer because of her selfish habits and even though I loved her I cannot forget what she is putting her children and the rest of us through.Not only that, but her children are following in her footsteps as they are headed down the same road she traveled. Hopefully they will learn from her unnecessary death and get control of their weight before it causes them too much harm. Our mother was never obese until she had surgery to remove one lung because of cancer and had a heart attack so it's not by parental example that she was obese and her children are headed to obesity.
Personally, I think all you can eat buffets should be outlawed since people seem to have lost their common sense, self control and self esteem. Refusing to push away from the table even when they know they've had more than enough is something that they can control. There is no glory in how many trips you made to the buffet before you couldn't force another bite down. In fact it's a shameful and disgusting thing to see.
I think the people that are the "buffet hogs" as I call them should have to pay double for health insurance. They should have to pay double for the items like seats, mattresses, steering wheels and steps that wear out or break because of the excessive weight that destroys them. It's not fair to those people that do try to take care of their health and that have to pay more for health care and other services because some where the extra cost has to be recovered. We should not have to suffer because of someone else's inability to be adult and exercise enough self control to stop stuffing their face. It's obvious that they think they have to hit the buffet at least two times to think they got their moneys worth.
They complain that they are getting fat and some one should stop them! Please give me a break! You are supposed to be an adult and control yourself. Heaven forbid someone deny you access to a buffet, you'd sue for that even though it might help save your selfish life.
There's a MAJOR difference between being refused service when you've had too much to drink and being refused service when you've had too much to eat. Drinking alcohol is something that no one has to do in to live. In most cases it's a choice you make for what ever reason. Not to mention there are numerous laws in every state concerning the consumption of alcohol. Yes, I've been there and done that. Since I know I lack the self control to drink responsibly I just don't drink.
There are those in this country that think they should be able to sue some one else for failing to control THEIR actions, yet those same people would scream about their constitutional rights the second they were perceived to be infringed upon. Hopefully the judicial system would laugh you out of the system but with the current state of our judicial system today I don't have much faith in it.
It all comes back to being responsible for what you do and not expecting someone else to monitor and protect you from yourself. Sadly, I think that the morals and personal pride in self that once drove our nation to be the best in the world has been diminished by the all you can eat buffets, right along with good examples that we were once expected to be for the younger generation.
(Please note that this blog was written about a news story that I read and wasn't directed at any one here, my apoligies if anyone was/is offended by it.)
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