Want to know if your weight is a bad thing? Can you: If you don't meet these criteria, you are not healthy. The only other groups that don't fit this bill are the elderly and the physically handicapped, both of which we would say have a much lower quality of life than if they had not been in that state. The key difference here is that your problem is self-inflicting. You choose your first-order desires of the 2500 calorie cheeseburger with fries, a short burst of instant gratification with detrimental long term effects, over the long term benefits of wellness. Being healthy is more than just being 'not fat'; it has incredible mental and physical health effects that contribute to your metabolism, your mental awareness, your body's biological productivity (including hormones), and mood. But you'll throw that all away so you can achieve momentary euphoria. It's the equivalent of getting high.  Obesity essentially boils down to two things: laziness and selfishness.  You're not just disgusting, you're selfish. You put your desires in front of your needs. You put those desires in front of your child's need for a loving and caring parent. You put those desires in front of the welfare of greater society by burdening it with your abnormal healthcare needs and forthcoming legislation that will someday require us to remove doorways entirely. You put those desires in front of your own need for an actual job. The obese are often either purposely pigeonholed into shitty service jobs, or they wind up relying on welfare checks their entire life while they run a shitty blog to circlejerk their awful misconceptions of 'real health'. And why should anyone hire them when, actual capabilities aside, they can't see ahead of their petty desires (literally), they most likely will require special accommodations (including benefit burdens), and they're unable to attain a goal other than becoming exponentially bigger. We all give into our desires sometimes. We're naturally selfish creatures. We smoke, drink, eat poorly, masturbate, get high, waste our money, etc. Sometimes we want that instant gratification. We crave it. But we also understand that we have a duty to ourselves and to others to be something better than the human realization of displacement theory. So, next time you interact with a fat, consider not just the physical implications of their fatness, but their character as well. If you think they have your interest or anyone else's ahead of their own shitty desires, you're wrong. They wouldn't be that way otherwise.