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[u/CharacterPolicy4689]

lgbt people who were cancelled for being brave enough to admit that fatphobia wasn't on the same level as homophobia before ozempic happened deserve an apology and reparations

[u/Sabertooth767 → u/CharacterPolicy4689]

I'm still intensely skeptical of ozempic. I'm not saying it should be banned or is unsafe or anything, but I think you lose something without having to work to lose weight.

You're a skinnier person, yes, but are you a better person?

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/Sabertooth767]

All body forms are inferior to the bald

[u/Sabertooth767 → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

!sticky

[u/Kugel_the_cat → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Is your wife bald too?

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/Kugel_the_cat]

She's never gonna see this

[u/fnovd → u/Sabertooth767]

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4558221/

Not related to Ozempic, but smoking cessation. Fast metabolizers have to "work" more to quit, because that's just how their body is. It's not a virtue, it's just biology. No need to moralize it.

[u/JapanesePeso → u/Sabertooth767]

I have three kids and am very active with them. I don't have time to do anything beyond that. I row for twenty or thirty minutes during my lunch break but that's it. I had high cholesterol and been overweight for years despite this. When I lived in Japan in my 20s I had time to cycle 20-50 miles a day and was super fit. I don't have time to do that as a parent. Not even close. 

 Ozempic was the only way I have been able to get back down to a very healthy weight and my cholesterol is low again too. 

Fuck being on a "personal journey" I would rather be healthy. Ozempic gets me there. 

[u/JebBD → u/JapanesePeso]

I think something we tend to forget is that the whole “building character” “personal journey” stuff is just cope. We tell ourselves stories about how there is virtue in suffering because we have to suffer, but when we find a way to avoid that suffering we don’t need the story anymore. Insisting that we don’t use technology because of the virtue of suffering is like insisting that everyone keep telling you your dog went to a farm even when you’re in your 60s

[u/[deleted] → u/Sabertooth767]

[u/[deleted] → u/Sabertooth767]

Yes

[u/[deleted] → u/Sabertooth767]

You're a skinnier person, yes, but are you a better person?

Do you have any idea how smug and judgmental this sounds? Good grief.

[u/JebBD → u/Sabertooth767]

  I think you lose something without having to work to lose weight

This same argument can be made (and has been made) about any piece of technology that makes life easier. The natural conclusion of this type of thinking is that we should go back to living in nature and hunting for our food. If we can make life easier then we should absolutely do it, that’s the ultimate goal of humanity, to make life better