Ken Burch
1 min readMar 5, 2020

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The majority of the population is, by some metric or other, of a larger weight than they should be, and there is no evidence that people who are of what society arbitrarily considers an “acceptable” weight contribute any more to the economy than anybody else or are in any sense entitled to judge those outside what society says is a normal weight. Many thin people have eating disorders, or are thin due to disease or simply due to hereditary. It could just as easily be pointed out that, in a socialized healthcare system, the majority who don’t smoke-many of whom would be considered overweight-will have to pay the costs associated with those who choose to smoke.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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