tl;dr: fat acceptance is eating away at my tax-dollars

Back ground info: I'm a resident physician (registrar to the Europeans and Australians) and I work weekend shifts at a nearby sports-medicine/orthopaedic clinic to supplement my regular income (I'm in training so my pay is shit). A big of my job at the clinic involves evaluating people who are applying for a disability pension.

Anyhow, I've noticed that the majority of people who apply for "disabled" status fall into 3 categories: 1. People who develop arthritis because of a life of heavy labor and joint overuse or become injured in a work-related accident. 2. People who become disabled from a disease completely outside their control such as cancer or Parkinson's disease. 3. People who develop arthritis and other health problems because of poor physical condition, i.e. fat or drug use.

The last group, i.e. the fatties and druggies, bother me the most. To be fair, some of them get fat from inactivity AFTER they were originally disabled from another injury and some of them use drugs to mask their pain from a previous injury. However the ones who become disabled BECAUSE of fatness/drug use are the ones who bother me. These people actually have medical problems that prevent them from working BECAUSE of poor choices. They will end up getting a disability pension, since they are disabled, which is funded by our collective tax dollars.

The fat acceptance movement encourages these people with the "big is beautiful" mantra. This has actual consequences on society by encouraging people to pursue unhealthy lifestyles which lead to them becoming parasites on our system. I know that many people have the "let society burn" attitude (I have that mindset as well to an extent) but dammit I still pay taxes and I'm spending hours of my life supporting people who have wrecked themselves through poor choices. Just wanted to rant.