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jeofken · on July 29, 2021

It it kills as many per year, but technically is not infectious, it would still deserve the same moral weight, so the similie holds.

There are many ways you can use force and threats to make people live healthier, if you don’t consider them the owners of their bodies that is

tpm · on July 29, 2021

But Google is not trying to make people live healthier, it doesn't care about that. Google is trying to prevent hazardous working conditions for their employees. All vaccination mandates are about that: they don't care about the vaccinated or unvaccinated person, they care about the risk that person presents for its environment. In that sense the obesity analogy completely fails.

meiraleal · on July 29, 2021

Obesity is culturally infectious. If you have fat friends/family/SO you will get fatter in most cases (more than 1%). It is also acutely deadly as most of thr top10 death causes are directly related to diet and lifestyle.

Important to note that obesity is excess of fat related to general bodyweight, not only total weight.