Saying that obesity is “manageable” is like saying that being gay is “manageable.” IMHO, neither one is a choice, and even though you claim that weight gain is under the control of the obese, it is not.
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I can turn a fat person thin. Just give me enough power over that person.
But I could never turn a gay person into a straight person or vice versa.
I will grant you that over-eating is a genetic predisposition. That was a good thing when humans did not have unlimited amounts of food available. So humans had to eat a lot when food was available, and store some away to survive another day.
All else being equal, I don’t see any incremental health hazard to being gay.
Being over-weight is dangerous to one’s health. To me, it’s an issue of responsibility to one’s body and to society (because of the costs associated with obesity).[/quote]
Not that over-eating is genetically predisposed (though the inability to feel satiated could be), but that people burn calories differently. You can give two people the same number of calories, and one will be overweight, while the other one starves. The genetic predisposition is whether or not their bodies tend to store calories or burn them off immediately.
IMHO, some people have to force, or push, their bodies into action (those who tend to store calories), while others have bodies that pull them into action (those whose bodies convert calories into kinetic energy).
