Bus Company Says Thin Drivers Deserve Better Pay

In an attempt to promote good employee health, a Lithuanian transport company is paying thin drivers better salaries than their overweight co-workers. Over 100 drivers were weighed to determine their BMI. "We just wanted to promote a health lifestyle," said Vilius Lauzikas, director of Busturas, the transport company in question. The local union and donut loving drivers aren't fans of the new policy. "We cannot call it nothing other than a mockery. If they (the company) do not reconsider we will appeal to the courts," a union representative said.

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Re:Illegal?

[Zeek40]

No, I'm comparing the lack of self control demonstrated by fat people (who don't have a medical reason for being fat) to the lack of self control demonstrated by criminals, because both are improper responses to a feeling or emotion that result in harm to oneself or others.

Everyone gets angry once in a while. People with self control find a way to vent that anger that doesn't harm themselves or others. People without self control attack what they're angry at.

Everyone gets hungry once in a while. People with self control eat enough to satisfy their hunger and move on. People without self control repeatedly over-indulge, get fat and damage their health.

The equivalent 'food' experiment to your 'masturbation' experiment would be bulimia, not obesity. In both of those cases you would pretend to satisfy or partially satisfy the urge, but don't ever really satisfy it.
A much more accurate 'masturbation' experiment that would have the corresponding 'obesity' experiment you attempted to imply would be masturbating 10 times a day to completion for the rest of your life, then complaining about the genital chafing and carpal tunnel syndrome.