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by slothtrop 784 days ago
> Only in America is "exercise" something you must go out of your way to do.

No. Growing obesity rates is not an issue unique strictly to America, it's just prevalent there.

> we've built our cities to make walking impossible and dangerous

Kids can and do play in the suburbs. There are parks everywhere. They ride their bikes everywhere. The "fuckcars" angle fails to account for the disparity.

> normalized locking our kids away indoors and shoving an iPad in their face

Now you're getting warmer.

> You are missing the point entirely.

I addressed the argument conveyed to make your "point", and there isn't only a single "point" to be made in discourse. Notwithstanding that if you wanted to make another point, then you'd have made it.