Can I Sue Some Fat People?

In this day and age of rampant litigiousness, and our ever-increasing need to point fingers and lay blame on anyone and everyone around us, I see no reason whatsoever why I can't sue the overblown population of fatties.


I am a relatively healthy person, with the occasional trip to the doctor for a case of strep and my yearly checkup, I don't cost my insurance company a whole lot of money. I recall the days (and they were not so long ago) when I never incurred more than a $20 copay and no more than $25 for a prescription. Even if tests had to be run, or I needed some bloodwork, I could count on the Blue Cross conglomerate to sift through the bills and get them all paid. And the great thing was that my company paid nearly all of my annual premiums. I had it pretty easy.


Having not had insurance for quite a while, I sure was surprised to find that many medications are no longer covered, most have to be mail ordered within certain timeframes, many tests and labs are not covered, and my copays have shot up. What the hell is going on here? Why is this costing me so much out of pocket in ADDITION to the extra money I have to give up on my paycheck for the freakin premium my company barely pays for anymore? And god help you if you don't have insurance and have to pay on your own or try to get your own coverage. Hope you have an extra $600 a month just waiting to pour out of your ass. Yeah, I know, we are in a (pre) recession, yeah, the economy is in the toilet and all must suffer, but from what the news tells me, I can blame a lot of my medical bill woes on the fat and lazy of America.


Due to the huge increases of many diseases, most of which are caused by obesity, hospitals and insurance companies are charging more than ever to keep up with the cost of maintaining the lives of the hefty population. Well, I for one am livid. If the cost of someone else living on a diet of cheese fries, chocolate cake and soda is going to infringe on my right to reasonably priced and adequately covered health plans, I think I should be able to sue the sweatpants off them. They obviously have no intention on ever getting healthy, or doing anything more laborious than popping whatever magic pill is being touted this month, so why should their lifelong medical bills be my fucking problem? They need to learn that what they do affects others, and in this case, me, and I want some compensation for it.


If we can sue gun companies for making the guns that criminals use to kill innocent people, it doesn't seem like a big stretch that I can round up some of the rotund population in my area and drag their asses to court. Come on skinny healthy people! Rise up with me! The fat people are to blame for your inability to have affordable health care! Don't you want to do something about it??


Those of you who read this that know me, and well, let's be honest, you're the only ones that do...you know I am NOT SERIOUS. I don't want to sue fat people, nor do I hate fat people. My rant here is against the explosion of the blame factor in America. I am sick to death of it. Mark my words, this will be the ultimate downfall of our society. We are getting hogtied by our inability to accept blame and put blame exactly where it belongs. The fear I have is that you can't see an end in sight. Some kid goes out and shoots up a school because he read the wrong book, saw the wrong movie, listened to the wrong song...we put the blame on all of those outside things instead of on the crazy maladjusted kid. Someone's kid gains weight and ends up diabetic because they lived on a diet of McDonald's, so we sue McDonald's rather than reprimand the parent who FED their kid all that shit. A thief breaks into your house and injures himself in the process and sues you for the damages. My god, what the hell are we doing here?


Accepting your actions, taking blame for the things you've done wrong is part of what makes you a responsible and enlightened adult. Are there things in this world that influence us? Yes. Are there things in this world that suck balls? Definitely. Do you have the control, as an individual, to decide how to respond to the world around you? Absofuckinlutely. If we begin to condition society that everyone else is to blame, that you have no control, that everything in your life only happens TO you, do we not tread down a very dangerous road that can lead to our demise? I tend to think so.


It starts at a very young age. You hear a little kid wail as he is about to be punished, "but he MADE me do it!" And as a parent, you didn't turn around to the other kid and punish him instead. You firmly stated, no one made you do anything, and that's why you are being punished now. Well, at least that's how it was when I was a kid. Of course, things are changing. Now parents are suing schools because their kid got a bad grade because they didn't turn their homework in on time. Kids are suing teachers because they suffered ear damage after they slammed their hand down on the desk to WAKE THE KID UP!


Seriously, what the hell is going on? Where has sanity and rationale gone? Where has common sense fled to? What does it take to make people realize that suing the hell out of each other and blaming everyone and everything for your being a piece of shit only leads to everyone becoming a piece of shit? We don't even expect criminals to accept what they've done and own up to their actions. We ask for leniency because someone or something else made them do it. Once you are an adult, I am sorry, that shit doesn't fly. You grow up and you get over what has been done to you, or you actively seek help. It seems to me that the only people we expect to never lay blame are our politicians! You think Gov. Spitzer can say hey, you don't understand! My frigid wife hasn't put out in 10 years, what's a guy to fuckin do? No, he has to accept what he's done, give up his job and slink away into the dungeon of 'dirty' politicians. Ugh. Don't even get me started on that one.

Enough is enough. There is no great Big Bad running loose in the world that twists your arm to live your life a certain way or make you do certain things. You didn't buy a house you couldn't afford because an evil creditor used savvy marketing and numbers games, you did it because you are stupid and can't read a fucking contract. You don't consume more than you should because advertising and media force you to, it's because you are empty inside and incapable of prioritizing your life - and you deserve to be in debt until the day you die. You aren't fat because fast food chains use the wrong kind of oil, you are fat because you eat at fast food chains. Your kid isn't a pain in the ass because the schools aren't doing enough, it's because you suck as a parent and are too lazy to spend the time to raise them.


Well, maybe I should call the media and say I am going to sue some fat people anyway. At least I would have a pulpit for a few minutes. But with my luck, some lawyer would hear it, and I would have just given him a great idea. If I ever see a case like this go to court, I'm suing for the fucking copyright.