Fat shaming is more likely to cause someone to not change and possibility even engage further in the activity/or lack of activity they're doing that got them(or in part) to obese to begin with.
tl;dr: You're better off with positive reinforcement, than negative if you want someone to change
Not sure the two are equally comparable, as one of the biggest anti-smoking sells was "you're not just killing yourself, the second-hand smoke is killing those around you", not sure that applies to obese people?
Anecdotally, I did know a guy who would smoke more just to be annoying when people gave him the standard "you know smoking is bad, right...". But he was a special *******.
edit: Iirc, DarthGoober who is a disgusting smoker also has this outlook towards people who are disgusted by his smoking. He'll smoke more, blow it in another's direction etc. We had a talk a year+ ago.
You might have a point. They are just killing themselves when being fat.
They are killing their children, however. If they eat poorly, their children are affected into obesity almost invariably which makes it worse than smoking.
Also, a while back, I remember reading that even when parents kept a good diet for their children, if the parent was obese, so would the child. Part of it was the child not believing any stupid shit the parent said about diet because the parent was a fatty.
So it's worse if they have kids? Can the anti-fat campaign say, "Being fat doesn't just kill you, it's killing your children. Stop being a fatass." ?
Even without that study I think everyone has an anecdotal experience with overweight parents leading to overweight kids, as that behavior is in part learned.
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I guess if someone's obese already, they have a pretty weak mentality that is driven by short-driven dopamine highs and low impulse control.
Negative reinforcement probably does no good. But I don't know. I think some forced hard labour in some modern-day mandatory gyms will straighten out at least a large majority.
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