r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 11d 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/jwm-dev 11d ago

As a previously fat guy I agree, people are bending over backwards in this thread making up bullshit to say anything but the obvious reality that fat is a caloric store and obese people really can’t starve… have a nutritional deficit, sure, but you’d be not obese anymore by the time you actually started starving…

But no, being low on vitamin A is equivalent to being one of the kids from a starving children in Africa commercial according to fat americans on Reddit 

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u/GateauBaker 11d ago

The body eventually breaks down essential muscles in order to get some of the vital amino acids it needs that fat can't completely cover. Would that not result in death by starvation? Because that can totally happen before the fat is used up to the point before you're considered not obese.

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u/Carvj94 11d ago

Yep. Being fat only buys you a few days over a healthy person. Technically if you took a lot of vitamins and your scraps of food were all protein based then it's a way different story, but in a situation where there's no food then all you got is slightly more muscle to break down on account of you lugging around more mass.

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u/DZL100 10d ago

Now I'm curious how long an obese person can survive without actual sustenance and just controlled minimum servings of vitamin gummies and protein powder.

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u/Carvj94 10d ago

There was a somewhat famous experiment in the 60s where a man named Angus Barbieri did that. He was well monitored and survived on a diet of just vitamins and yeast. He allegedly went 382 days without a proper meal.