This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

[Trigger warning for discussion of eating habits and associating morality with eating. Also: Classism.]

Kurt Gray never actually says in "Self-control from Helping Others" that fat people are immoral and lazy. He only says that doing good deeds helps people increase their self-control so they can "dodge the cheesecake" and "resist the office donuts better" and "stick to their workout routine."

And he never actually says that poor people are immoral and lazy. He merely suggests over and over that being able to provide financial charity to others is a good deed that make you physically stronger: "Those who donated a dollar to charity could hold up a weight significantly longer than those who kept a dollar." Never mind that he fails to provide any context for why those people kept their dollar. Greed, as is the implicit suggestion? Or were the people who kept dollars people who had experienced poverty in their lives, or were currently in poverty?

Is there any possibility that people feel physically weakened by the stigma of accepting charity...?

I mean, after all, we live in a culture where Harvard-trained social psychologists write articles that tacitly marginalize the already-marginalized and more deeply entrench narratives that fat/poor people are immoral and lazy, while privileged people are told that their privilege is evidence of morality and hard work.

That seems like maybe it could get demoralizing. Ahem.