^ SubhanAllah Ya akh
Ideal Body Weight is a statistically induced index. It cannot determine for us what is moral and immoral. Some people who are completely healthy either side of ideal weight are moral.
Morality is far beyond what a person appears to be. If you think of a starving person or a person force fed. There are exceptions of people who are obese and never develop other medical conditions, also there are people bang on ideal weight who still develop diseases.
Disease itself or being prone to disease is not immoral either. Islam for example views a person who has become ill as a person in a state of forgiveness from Allah (SWT). Many people are born prone to disease and to be hygienic is one matter of common sense and ettiquette, but to call something immoral because it attracts disease is unfair to those people with weal immune systems.
Of course the equation you have put up is supposed to show the balance of energy in the human system.
What about the growing child?
Morality will need to be more sophisticated:
1) Type of food consumed - is it fast food or good food? 2) Is it halal (i.e. blood drained) or haram? 3) Is the food being eaten slowly and digested fully? 4) Is the body active and doing exercise together with being obedient to laws of God? 5) Is the rest that it takes permissible? 6) Is food being eaten with some hunger remaining? 7) Is food being wasted? 8) Is the body weight being maintained to show people how healthy one is or is it through obedience of moral eating habits?
Fatness may only be a symptom of some of these immoral things. And the statement is that although fatness is not immoral in itself but some things that lead to fatness are, but not all things that lead to fatness are immoral therefore fatness in itself cannot be immoral. And if it was, how does fatness prevent a person from doing good, or make a person do bad, in such a way that you could only blame the fat?
I don't see obesity as a suffering, it may be that an obese person is not suffering at all and if he is, he will be suffering from other medical conditions.
Thanks. You indeed gave very good points.
Lets make it simpler why I consider obesity can be immoral.
**Allowing body to become obese is immorality.
Its a myth to consider purely obese people are healthy.
**Obese people sooner or later develop common diseases including hypertension and diabetes. And unfortunately they may not even be aware of it till late in the stage of disease.
No matter how you look at it or how one achieves it, its not a good thing.
Obese people die sooner and develop more diseases or even make diseases more difficult to treat.
Hope you can search the diseases which are related to or caused by obesity. (Excluding the diseases which actually lead to obesity)
I will repeat: Taking care of the body is the responsibility of every individual.
Morality is a big term and perhaps needs to be defined.
Hint: Definition of morality is based on culture, time, place, scientific knowledge and religion etc.
Hint2: Not everything religious is 'morality' and not every 'moral' thing is religious.