hockeybabe89 posted...
Should we call mentally ill people crazy?
Should we call people failures when they have objectively failed at something?
Some mentally ill people are crazy and I have no problem calling them as such. But one thing needs to be made clear, all mentally ill people aren't crazy, so no to your question. Charles Whitman or Hitler however I have no problem calling crazy. But again, not all mentally ill people are crazy, so no your generalization question doesn't fit.
Same to your failure analogy. Failing at a particular objective is not the same thing as being a failure of a human being. Also being a failure of a human being isn't exactly agreed upon with a set definition so, again, no. What one calls a failure of a human being, another might not.
Both of those things are not comparable to a person who is by definition, obese.