The mental blind spot we all have

Here’s a simple way to watch the Internet burn. Go to Reddit or any forum and bring up fat people. Watch as the crowd goes bat-shit with the fury of a million exploding suns. I predict replies like how easy it is to lose weight because they were xxx kgs over-weight before and they managed to do it. All it takes is will-power and how incredibly lazy you must be to get fat. Pick any one who responded and ask them about problems they’ve experienced. Then apply the same logic to their problems. “You’re unemployed? How lazy are you not to go out there and find a job!” “You smoke? Er duh, why don’t you use your will-power and not kill the people around you and yourself?” Watch their brain twist and turn to deliver 10,000 different rationalizations about why they ......