Aside from the fact that today is Monday, my crankiness was somehow thankfully subdued due to lack of sleep last night. Meaning ironically every waking moment, I take the chance for a quick wink.
I am expected to meet Mitch at Glorietta for the last day of Photoworld exhibit. But surprisingly my system really couldn't handle the drowsiness, that's why I decided to beg off, click out of the office exactly 5 pm, not a minute later, take skyway and reach the target mark!
Anyways I am going to share, as I already did with some of my officemates, an article I read just recently. Mind you, the article jolted me back to absurd reality as the article is also full of unfathomable absurdities. At least I knew that people, even High-and Mighty politicians from other power countries, make mistakes once in a while, and boy this is one of the funny BS mistakes I feel strongly about.
In the article posted in Walletpop
some of the lawmakers in the United States, specifically in the state of Mississippi, actually formulated a bill to ban obese people from restaurants. In the bill, there is a designated identification, based on Department of Health Standards on who passes as obese. Any establishment serving obese people food would have its permit terminated.
I told you it's ridiculous, but most especially...
Downright discriminating is all I can say! Forget about the war, forget about the old time war of nationalities and civilizations, forget about the races, forget about education, we've come this low to demonstrate downright in your face, discrimination!
I do understand that this bill is backed up by Health concerns. We all know obesity creates many fatal complications. It's not aesthetically pleasing, and it's not healthy at all. Worse, this could be prevented, and we do hear these lawmakers' concern. But the method of protecting these people and ensuing changes to occur by simply banning them in public establishments, would not heal them physically but damages them psychologically. It's not the correct answer, and never will be.
It's bad enough to know that calorie contents would be included in menus soon, it's annoying, but it has a greater chance to empower people more. But to be actually prohibited from restaurants, a place created for social gatherings backed up by good food and known to be one of the strongest places to exhibit the human power to choose, it's not just and not right.
It doesn't take a humanitarian to feel that this bill is a poor attempt to solve a social health problem. As humans it's our nature to help whenever, however and wherever we can, but we have to be sensitive and knowledgeable enough to offer help the right empowering way, and not through a discriminating way.
Obese people may have missed the right choices in their lives. Obese people are scarred, yet real. Being obese doesn't make a person less human. What they need is understanding and the help to seek empowerment to change for the better. This could be done through information and positive support groups, and not through this bill.
We all make mistakes. We are humans and we should help each other, and not find ways to discriminate each other for betterment. It doesn't work that way, and it's time for me to understand that these lawmakers are just humans and they're bound to go back to the drawing board. Because this bill is not only downright discriminating, but also downright ridiculous.
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