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NatvoAlterice t1_j5j24xr wrote

Reply to comment by BeenBadFeelingGood in How our microbiome is shaped by family, friends, and even neighbors. Study of the gut and mouth microbiomes of thousands of people from around the world raises the possibility that diseases linked to microbiome dysfunction, including cancer, diabetes, and obesity, could be partly transmissible. by MistWeaver80

>You have curiosity, literacy, internet and intelligence. They are also privileges.

These are not privileges! Please stop dismissing human traits as making a lifestyle choices and motivation or continuous personal development as privileges. It's called being a responsible adult.

Not only it sounds like a defeatist excuse, but it also dismisses the fact that many people all over the world stay in moderate weight range just by being aware of their food intake and moving regularly. These are lifestyle choices.

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>And the fact you’re not white and not American, is also another privilege.

A number of POC/ non-white folks will disagree here.

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>Chances are you’re better educated than most people in America.

Literacy rates of the US/ North America are higher than where I grew up.

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>Privilege isn’t just financial, class or a preferred skin color.

It absolutely is. It's so naive to believe it is not.

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BeenBadFeelingGood t1_j5j2ubh wrote

When you attain a higher plain of consciousness, you will understand that some humans, even though they look like adults to you, are indeed irresponsible children in the body, as if in the costume, of an adult. They aren’t. Sadly, globally, we have lots of them

If you wanna punch down at them, go ahead. It’s a lose-lose tho

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worotan t1_j5j5dze wrote

> some humans, even though they look like adults to you, are indeed irresponsible children in the body, as if in the costume, of an adult. They aren’t. Sadly, globally, we have lots of them

You say don’t punch down, but this attitude of yours comes through clearly when you deal with people, and being patronising is, as you demonstrate very well, a self-deceiving form of ‘punching down’.

You haven’t achieved a higher plane of consciousness to other people. You’re expressing a patronising attitude to keeping people you feel are lower than you safely in their place, to be looked after so that you can feel more adult than them. Which is very convenient for their addictions.

Americans with the idea that no one with other approaches could be as civilised and intelligent as their approach to public health allows is pretty laughable. As your circular, self-congratulatory logic demonstrates.

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