[yummyfajitas]

Why would removing disincentives for being fat reduce the number of fat people? Should we also make smoking cool to reduce the # of smokers?

[nsxwolf]

I know that kids making fun of me in school really motivated me to lose weight.

Not.

[arrrg]

Treating people like shit is not cool. And that’s all that needs to be said about this, really.

It’s not ok to treat people worse because of their weight.

[yummyfajitas]

A) The question is a positive one, not a normative one. Your reply is irrelevant.

B) Now that fat people harm the rest of us (via Obamacare and rules forcing employer health insurance to charge everyone the same), its hardly clear that social opprobrium is unwarranted.