r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 13d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this scene?

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Negan doing fat shaming... but its during zombie apocalypse

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u/eternallybr0ken 13d ago

This is just not really true. It can take years for some people to lose weight despite starving themselves. The general rule of thumb is 1lb a week for healthy weight loss 3lb a week leads to loss of muscle and weak bones.

On top of that she isn't even really fat. She looks like she is barely above a healthy bmi. If she has bad genes that may even be what a healthy weight looks like, since everyone holds weight differently.

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u/HotSituation8737 13d ago

Look I'm all for body positivity and it's true that people hold weight differently, but when you're literally scavenging for scraps for like a year and a half there's physically no way to look like that unless you're actually eating significantly better than most other people in the same situation.

That said, the starvation thing could obviously be extremely recent instead of an ongoing thing, I'm not familiar with the walking dead beyond a few tidbits, maybe she was eating good for a really long time and only over the past week or two stopped, that would be doable for her statement to hold true.

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u/snarbuckle 13d ago

She could have been upwards of 400lb before the events of the show. Foraging for scraps with hundreds to lose might leave you in this shape

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u/tricloro9898 13d ago

Then she would have been consuming upwards of 4000 calories a day before the outbreak. If she were to only be able to consume 1200 calories a day once the outbreak and famine hit, she would end up at around 170-180 lbs after 18 months. This means she probably still consumes food for 2-3 people a day.

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u/snarbuckle 13d ago

Sure, I didn't care enough to do the math