# Obese Boy Scouts not allowed to attend Jamboree. Fat discrimination or common sense? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634 "2013-07-16T02:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 154
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Tequila\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634/154 "2013-07-18T02:43:03Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > You call it discrimination, I’d call protecting already sick kids from getting sicker while protecting the organization from liability. Not sure why you think “Hell, let 'em try, if they have a stroke, oh well, at least they were included” is a more prudent decision than “We’ll let them in when they lose a bit of weight”, but you’ve made your point. God, seriously? Are you that wedded to being right that you can’t ever admit to being wrong? Here’s my quote since you’re reading comprehension failed you initially. I’ll bold the relevant part. > [@Tequila\_Party](#): > > My point was, that you seemed to ignore the first time I responded to you and again the second time, was that you were wrong. After seeing you in action in multiple threads, I take it that you don’t cotton to having that pointed out much. Again though, you never admitted your error about rides at Disney and now, you can’t seem to grasp that I was illustrating how your rallying cry every post was futile. > > Shaming those who think differently than you by tugging at the heart strings of the old adage “Won’t someone think of the children!?” is ludicrous. [Bold]Some people here feel like these kids shouldn’t be discriminated (their word, I suppose)[/bold] and that viewpoint is valid without all the syrup. > > But keep up the good work. I see you’re winning over people right and left to agree with you. Them. The other people in this thread. Some of them feel it’s discrimination. What I think (if there’s any extent that I do about this issue) and I quote again in bold, covers _both_ sides: > [@Tequila\_Party](#): > > What? Could you show me anywhere that I advocated wanting to “risk the life of these kids who already have serious health problems”? Because, you know, I didn’t. All I did do was correct your inaccurate statement. Which you conveniently side-stepped, by the way. But anyway, as to the debate itself, I have no fight in this dog. [Bold]I can’t see any reason why scouting in general wouldn’t be a good idea to help obese kids lose weight, but on the other hand, I understand liability. So, whatever.[/Bold] I don’t support that homophobic organization either way. > > However, I do think you should ask one more time “But what about the children?!” Because I don’t think the 40 times you’ve done it so far are enough. So to recap, I said that I don’t see why scouting as a general activity wouldn’t be a good idea to help kids. Never did I say or imply what you are claiming and I don’t appreciate you putting words in my mouth when I’ve noticed you have no problem using the quote function. Also, as I’m sure everyone else noted but you, is that I get the liability stance too. Either way, none of it matters to me. My only point, reiterated several times now, is that you were wrong about Disney. If only you’d have come back and accepted the correct facts, I wouldn’t have given a shit about any of the rest of this. But I suppose your incapable and here we are. So I guess I’ll be waiting for the multiple retractions that’ll never come while you keep up the good and sanctimonious fight. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634)._