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Oh yes, weight loss has to have this moral purity where it is achieved through pure willpower, otherwise it does not count.


This isn't about morality. Quitting any addiction is objectively difficult and most people need several attempts before it sticks. I have no illusion that you can "just" lose weight.

Making people chemically dependent on a drug to keep themselves healthy is optimising for the wrong solution. It's quick and easy but it mostly serves to keep insurance and drug company profits up.

I certainly believe that these drugs can be useful as a means of gaining an intermediate result (which can significantly reduce the immediate risk of many diseases) during treatment, but that's not how people treat them; people treat them as a magical fix for obesity and that's simply not healthy.




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