I don't see how obesity can affect you in any way unless you have socialized healthcare. I have no responsiblity to be look healthy any more than I have a responsibility to have short hair. If you DO have socialized healthcare then, as I said, the problem is not that people are irresponsible but that you have socialized healthcare, because it justifies controlling people.

My stance, in short, is that when I read something like "Obese people only have themselves to blame" I balk. Blame? Blame for what? It's a characteristic. Leave them alone. Let them be obese. Yes, it is for the most part their doing, but to me, looking down on fat people because it's their own doing is like looking down on people with dyed hair because it's their own doing. It makes absolutely no difference in any way. We would never get away with vilifying any ethnic or cultural group like this. We'd be lynched if we spoke about women as we speak about fat people.

You (general you) have created a debate and controversy over absolutely nothing. It is a personal issue, to be discussed by the obese person and their doctor.