MPs want to make ''obese/fatty'' a hate crime

What a bad argument - you can't even put forward a valid point. Fat people, as I have already stated, are a drain on the economy, and on society in general. Then are an inconvenience in every concievable way, such as taking up too much room on the tube or being too slow at walking. They also eat too much and produce too much litter which they usually carelessly throw on the ground without a second thought. In my opinion there should be restrictions and rules put in place in order to prohibit their kind from accessing some of the same facilities and recources that normal people can access, which is no more than the deserve.

So you basically come out with a statement without any elaboration or explanation whatsoever and apparently it's a 'bad argument' on my part if I try to get you to explain yourself a bit? I wasn't even trying to make a point, it was just a question. Whatever. No use debating with someone who gets so irately emotional anyway.

Another evasive response - well done, you are clearly someone with a compelling and well though out viewpoint.

Those are all pretty ****ty reasons to stigmatise people. If you see being fat as such a problem then what makes you think abuse and ostracism is an appropriate response to it?

Because it encourages them to stop being fat. Pretty simple really.

All that article actually quotes the Government on is 'appearance-based discrimination', including body weight discrimination. I would agree that appearance-based discrimination is a bad thing. The rest strikes me as potential media spin.

So its ok to bully homos/puffs,dyslexics,poor people and people with BO?

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So its ok to bully homos/puffs,dyslexics,poor people and people with BO?

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In that case i don't think that any name calling should b illegal, maybe frowned upon in society if bad enough.

Calling someone a fatty being a hate crime. Wouldn't go that far. I don't think people who bully fat people do it out of hate.

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True, they in fact do it out of necessity. How else can a fat person be informed of his own depravity?

I originally interpreted the thread title as "MPs want to make obese/fat people a hate crime"

This is of course amusing due to the fact that fat "people" cannot really be considered people at all.

I hope that is sarcasm but you can never tell these days.

As for fat people, its not always their fault especially if they were are overweight since childhood that is 100% the parents fault bad habits from childhood are the leading cause of a high body fat percentage anything over 35% is getting very dangerous.