[perl4ever]

An analogy...people who don't feel pain tend to damage their body. This is mysterious if you think "well, they are not blind, they have free will and the ability to control their body, so why do they let themselves be damaged". But isn't that obviously silly? Pain is very important feedback and if you don't feel it is a disability that you are not at fault for.

Everybody who is naturally not overweight knows that they don't have to rigorously monitor their food intake, because they have an internal thermostat that does it for them. They just eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full.

Some drugs affect that thermostat, and some people have a naturally defective thermostat. It is very very difficult to fight it because the imbalance is very small and the intensity of the output is very high.

The thing that annoys me is, given that I have never been obese, and I assume you have never been obese, we both know from personal experience that people without weight problems do not exert effort to control it. So how can you blame those who need to for being unable? We both know better without needing the least empathy or experience of being obese.