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by shrimp_emoji 794 days ago
Like other prejudices, this can over/mistarget what you're aiming for. One of the most intelligent, driven, and charismatic people I've ever met was fat. Their discipline and character put everyone else's to shame, including mine. Whatever genetic/environmental quirk that made them succumb to eating more had ostensibly no connection to other aspects of their life.

Also,

> Eating a reasonable amount is easier than eating a lot.

isn't this disproved by the obesity epidemic? Evolution prepared us to desperately seek caloric abundance and sedentary lifestyles since those things were so rare in the past. Now that we have them constantly, expecting people to fight their wiring is like expecting clocks to run backwards.

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I feel empathy for people who have issues they have no control over, such as disability, mental illness, etc. But obesity is a self control issue. Just as I don’t hire drug addicts because it is a risk, I choose not to hire obese people. It’s simply too risky.