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EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability
mrspoonsi (2955715) writes The EU's top court is considering a test case which could oblige employers to treat obesity as a disability. Denmark has asked the European Court of Justice to rule on the case of a male childminder who says he was sacked for being too fat. The court's final ruling will be binding across the EU. It is seen as especially significant because of rising obesity levels in Europe and elsewhere, including the US. If the judges decide it is a disability then employers could face new obligations. Employers might in future have a duty to create reserved car parking spaces for obese staff, or adjust the office furniture for them, she said.
In the olden days, they'd round them all up, lock them in a barn and set it on fire. Now it's a ~disability~.
The gravy train is only a supersized meal away!
Trolling is a art,
Re:What about as a lifestyle choice?a lifestyle choice? Seriously. Even with the negative health aspects of being obese, what if someone chooses to be obese? Sometimes there are worse problems to worry about.
That makes it easy. We already make protected classes from lifestyle choices.
The lifestyle choice to get pregnant, the lifestyle choice to serve in the military, familial status, the lifestyle choice to be homosexual.
So sure! We absolutely could consider body weight a protected class.
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"the lifestyle choice to be homosexual."
You high?
I'm not sure how to interpret that. Are you objecting, saying who you sleep with isn't a choice? Perhaps all homosexual are rape victims, even if they thought it was consentual adults out for a fun time? Or maybe it is genetic, some defect that needs to be cured?
Because if it is not a choice those are the options. Either the person makes a choice or they don't. You seem to suggest it is not a choice people can make. Somehow homosexual and bisexual people don't make a choice about their partners. DNA forces the choice of who we will have sex with, or other people force it on them. Nobody would ever choose a 3-way, and nobody would ever willingly choose to touch another person's naughty bits if they are the same gender... is that what you mean?
Sure, I do believe some people have same sex attraction because of DNA reasons. But the actions themselves are a lifestyle choice. Lots of people have homosexual relations because that is how the person wants to live their life.
Just like all the other items on the list, they are things people choose to do. People serve in the military as a choice. People get married and have children as a choice. People have sex with others as a choice. These choices are all legally protected under discrimination laws. Adding obese to the list doesn't seem extreme.
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Yet another person who doesn't breathe or poop!
Seriously. How do you think plants grow? They aren't eating anything! It's super-anorexic! And yet they gain mass. Sure, they don't do a lot of exercise, but the vast majority of plants *do not eat*, yet they gain non-water mass.
Humans aren't a closed system. The law of conservation of mass and energy is as inappropriate a tool to measure these claims as using a single weathervane to predict the weather on the other side of the world.
I don't know why you put scare quotes around the thyroid anyway. Do you not believe in the existence of thyroids or something?
Yet, somehow, against all reason and sensibility, CO2 is now a "pollutant". How long until the climate alarmist message collapses under its own stupidity?