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the same way I feel there's way too much hostility directed towards smokers.

Different level if you ask me...same deal though really, people doing something they're aware messes with their health.
Personally the smoking thing pisses me off a little more...it's like there's no such thing as second-hand fat is there?
I do get a little annoyed at inconsiderate smokers - but other than that it's just a stupid decision that's theirs to make, I appreciate those that do think of others and won't light up in areas where those around them have no choice but to cop a face-full.
The argument that annoys me most though about that?
"Its my right to smoke where and when I want", I'm all for rights, just so long as they don't encroach on others, eg - the right to not breathe it in.
While I'm all for the personal choice for a person to inhale what they like, I don't want that choice made for me too.
Personally to that end, I hope to see the say public smoking is banned all together and that parents should be required by law to smoke in rooms their children aren't in, and while pregnant, not at all (the whole "it's my body" thing doesn't apply when it's not just YOUR body, a baby isn't an organ)...I can't really have any other problems with the habit, people can have bad breath and lungs all they like if that's something they opt for, I just think that like any other drug habit, however accepted, it should be kept to ones self.
Though I will say - I am all for smoking establishments/bars/cigar rooms, if it makes the air cleaner for everybody else and can stop smokers from feeling as though their rights have been trampled...cool there.

I'm mainly talking about fat people who consider themselves disabled.

Yeah that's what I was thinking...well maybe not even THAT fat, there's a level or two beneath that that's pretty disturbing too.

I still think I'm right and it boils down to eating too much. exercise is important, but not as important as your diet.

I think you're right and wrong. I agree with diet being of fundamental importance...If laziness is their lifestyle, then they're more likely to opt for 'fast food', or pre-prepared/processed "quick" food which REALLY isn't good for you when you're not getting enough exercise, and you don't need really copious amounts of it for it to effect you in a negative way if you don't work it off...this compounds if you eat it habitually, again, I don't think that shovelling in HEAPS of it is the only thing that could make them fatter...not to say that some of them don't though...the more extreme the case, the more likely being a glutton comes into play, but I think the basic condition can exist and be serious/bad without eating LOTS of food.
I guarantee that if these people had a proper exercise routine, their weight would not be so prolific, and to the point that it's more of a degenerative disease than a body type/weight category.

they aren't disabled, they are FAT. we need to remind them so they can stop just living with their "disability" and sort their lives out.

I think that if you don't think this is happening...it's probably because you don't really hang out with/associate with them much, I don't know about there, but here, a person like that gets called on it all the time and constantly has various reminders and problems with employment/people.
I think the thing is honestly? They've resigned to it. Grown used to it. Tried dieting for a week or something and didn't have the discipline to stick to healthy eating more often than not. "It's too hard" etc.
Must be a bit weird, knowing you're going to be a statistic before your 50's.
While I think they should FIX the problem, or well, die...I do find myself sympathising...not so much with their condition, mainly at the fact that they're probably just walking dead.