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That would only work if you could get fentanyl for a few dollars at every fast food joint.

Or if burgers were a thing you had to go to an illegal dealer for.




How about people just try not up-sizing their drink and fries? Or order one burger instead of two or three?

These are all choices.


Why do you think people persistently, for years, keep choosing something that harmed their bodies?

Just because you can do something, doesn't make it a "just" for everyone:

• Without any training, one day I decided to put one foot in front of the other and keep going, and managed 42 km, a literal marathon in distance — but it's obvious that, even though I was walking, most people can't do that.

• When I was at university, I gamified my diet to be the lowest cost without feeling hungry, and in retrospect that was probably 1100 kcal/day and only even safe because it was limited to term time, and it's really obvious that most people can't do that.

• Concersely, when I was on antidepressants and did graze myself into obesity, there simply wasn't a part of my mind aware of what I was doing to myself. I've lost that weight, but the strech marks are still there a decade later.




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