>It's like saying "Jesus and personal responsibility" will save you from your heroin addiction.
Is the heroin addict seeking help?
>It's like saying "Jesus and personal responsibility" will save you from your heroin addiction.
Is the heroin addict seeking help?
I should have been clearer than I was, you're not wrong, I just find nearly everything is more nuanced than we allow for in discourse these days, and I have sympathy for people because I, too, found it hard to eat healthy and exercise enough when I was an executive with an 11 hour work day due to a 2:45 hour combined daily commute.
And I was a distance runner for 20 years.
>I have sympathy for people because I, too, found it hard to eat healthy and exercise enough when I was an executive with an 11 hour work day
So you were overweight and/or ate poorly..But you wanted to be healthy?
This analogy, along with the drug addict one, doesn't work because 1. They don't believe they are doing something wrong 2. Aren't trying to fix the issue.
>nuanced
Then let's get deeper here. Offer up an argument with some nuance. My viewpoint isn't (I hope) contingent on ignoring the complexities of the situation