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Toujours aussi tranchant, le docteur Theodore Dalrymple rappelle que la responsabilité personnelle joue un rôle dans l’obésité.

À propos d’une série d’articles dans The Lancet:

The first phrase of the message caught my attention: “More than 500 million adults worldwide now have obesity.” Have obesity, please note—not “are obese,” much less “are fat.” Would anyone have written “500 million adults worldwide now have fatness”? (..)

To have obesity is to suffer from an illness, like multiple sclerosis—something that happens to you by virtue of an impersonal fate. To be obese is simply a physical description that leaves open the question of how you became obese in the first place.

Commentaires de Dalrymple sur ceux qui voient des victimes un peu partout.  Those who are not victims are then divided into two classes: the perpetrators and the saviors.

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It is sentimental—and, in the last analysis, condescending, dehumanizing, and even brutal—to regard people with self-destructive habits as simply victims of circumstances, who contribute nothing to their unhappy situation. (….). Ordinary people therefore can only be innocent victims, for if to blame them, even partially, for their own condition is to lack all sympathy for them, then to exculpate them totally is to exhibit maximum sympathy for them. Those who are not victims are then divided into two classes: the perpetrators and the saviors.

The saviors, I need hardly add, soon become professionals in the redemption business.