I LOVE your icon of Fraser at his most politely instructive. It fits perfectly. And WilW's motto is one for the world.
I'm always troubled by the privilogic that thinness is an accomplishment and worthy of praise. I don't know anyone, anywhere, who was a fat person and has become a thin person. It may be true that some people gain some weight through bad choices that actually were choices (and your example of poverty-level food is a good example of where it's not much of a choice), but the statistics are pretty indisputable: people who tend to fatness stay fat, and people who tend to thinness stay thin. And NONE of it has any bearing on the inherent right to respect that we all have.
And as to transportation! This country seems to be systematically stripping away the public good of city bus systems and replacing it with streetcars and light rail that cost astronomically more per rider-mile served, while also not actually serving the riders who need a ride the most.
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I'm always troubled by the privilogic that thinness is an accomplishment and worthy of praise. I don't know anyone, anywhere, who was a fat person and has become a thin person. It may be true that some people gain some weight through bad choices that actually were choices (and your example of poverty-level food is a good example of where it's not much of a choice), but the statistics are pretty indisputable: people who tend to fatness stay fat, and people who tend to thinness stay thin. And NONE of it has any bearing on the inherent right to respect that we all have.
And as to transportation! This country seems to be systematically stripping away the public good of city bus systems and replacing it with streetcars and light rail that cost astronomically more per rider-mile served, while also not actually serving the riders who need a ride the most.