You're Fat?... It's your Fault

As reported in the Daily Telegraph, British politician David Cameron has declared war on the "culture of moral neutrality" by "calling on the obese, the idle and even the poor to accept some responsibility for their plight." (see video here) Going further, Cameron says that "Britain risks creating a society where nobody is prepared to tell the truth about what is good and bad, right and wrong... Society has become far too sensitive to people's feelings with no one prepared to say what needs to be said.... Instead, we prefer moral neutrality, a refusal to make judgments about what is good and bad behavior, right and wrong behavior. Bad. Good. Right. Wrong." About obesity in particular, Cameron said "We talk about people being at risk of obesity instead of people who eat too much and take too little exercise. We talk about... [read full story]                    

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