"Mother Nature is a Shitlady" (musings on the inevitable demise of the fats) Looking at @OldRunningMan's comment linking to the classic Idiocracy intro scene, I decided to write up a theory about the future fat of the fats that has been brewing in my mind ever since I starting hanging out in FPH. The Idiocracy intro cites the oft repeated notion that humans are no longer subject to natural selection ... with no natural predators to thin the herd But I think that there is hope ... that mother nature truly despises fats and their way of living just as much as we do, and she will bring an end to them in due time. 1) There actually still are "natural predators to thin the herd" (though predator maybe isn't the exact right word).  Infectious diseases are still in a position that they could wipe out most or all of us.  We have many present day diseases under control, but microbes innovate fast and there could easily be a "plague" in the future that we have difficulty controlling.  Antibacterial resistance is an example of how microbes are "winning" the war against the microbial eradication strategy of modern medicine.  In general a plague like this is most going to affect the weak (aka fat)-- the best defense as always will be good general health and immunity.  For an entertaining version of this argument see Bill Burr...We need a plague.  It is totally plausible I think.  And it is not even farfetched to imagine that a infectious disease will rapidly evolve to specifically exploit the vulnerable physiology of the obeasts.  I personally think that microbes are capable of coming up with surprisingly effective and customized strategies for success in relatively short order. 2) Many health problems can accumulate generation to generation for reasons other than genetics.  I catch flak for talking about this on FPH because it sounds like a version of "condishuns."  The basic idea, though, is that a child of a fat & unhealthy person is off to a bad start, due to a) epigentics b) nutritional deficiencies and c) damaging environmental effects in the womb (can you imagine being a fetus inside of an obeast?  don't tell me that it wouldn't be an awful place to spend your first 9 months of delicate human development).  All of these factors can generally be reversed if the environment/diet of the child is corrected, since their genetics are fine-- it's just that the punishing environment of living inside an obeast for 9 months has done some damage that needs to be healed.  Hence, this is not a "condishuns" argument since I am not saying that children of fats are unable to renounce their beetus lord and regain their humanity, at least not currently or after just one or two generations of fat lifestyle.  But that is today's fat offspring.  What I would argue is that, if families of fats continue their lifestyles generation to generation, they will eventually thin out their own herd.  Their health problems will compound generation to generation and eventually they will become literally sterile/infertile, or die before having a chance to mate.  This trend has already begun as you are seeing fats gradually getting sicker earlier and earlier in life.  In several more generations, if the lineage continues the exact same diet & lifestyle, they will probably be unable to produce viable offspring for one of many possible reasons. Modern medicine will be unable just as unable to fix these people as it is today, since the only real solution is a normal diet and lifestyle.  Modern medicine's inability to find a "cheat" to allow fats to continue their lifestyle is already evidenced by the increasingly desperate and invasive procedures like weight-loss surgery, which are still not effective without lifestyle change.  In other words, lineages of fats that do not begin to rehabilitate themselves now through proper diet and exercise, even though they may be able to mate with another fat, will be increasingly less capable of producing viable offspring, and those of their offspring who do not choose to correct their lifestyle will be even less capable and so on, until they self-extinct their lineage of slovenly disgusting behavior. 3) And expanding on something from the last point: Fats generally can only mate with other fats.  Thus, if there is any genetic component to being as mentally weak as they are (though I actually don't think there is, or at least not very significant), it would be magnified or at least conserved in their offspring, leading to even more aggressively bingey personalities.  The would be so weak willed that they would actually meet the McGriddle Reaper before they are through with school and have a chance of starting a family. 4) Any remaining population that is still weak-willed enough to jump on to this roller-coaster of lard induced suicide will fall similarly. Sadly, it may be possible that there will always be a segment of the population which is freshly making the decision to give up being human and become a fat, but especially due to point #1, it will become increasingly fatal in a shorter time frame, and their numbers will not be able to sustain anywhere near their current levels. TL:DR; I propose several mechanisms by which fats will eventually be thinned out.  But regardless of the specifics, I posit that the extinction of fats is inevitable due to the way nature works.  Intuitively, I think you can think about this as mother nature / evolution being capable of stamping out greed and gluttony.  I argue that modern medicine will never really have a "cheat" or "shortcut" that allows gluttony a free-pass.  This is a more nuanced argument and it is based in the supposition that life on this planet is more clever than we are.  It may take a little time, but gluttonous behavior is always a weakness that will soon be exploited by a competing organism on the planet.  In the past, this would have meant a fat not being able to outrun a mammalian predator, for example.  Modern advances introduced houses and cars and whatnot-- rendering the fats temporarily safe from predation.  But shitlady mother nature is never more than one step behind.  In the near future, we will probably have microbes to thank-- for taking up the cause of bringing judgment upon these disgusting gluttons.  But don't doubt that the judgement will come in waves and be ongoing for all time, because shitlording truly is a Law of Nature.  Nature doesn't care about body-acceptance or political correctness-- it eventually identifies out-of-control behavior and finds a way to balance it out. SO I SAY TO YOU THAT THERE IS HOPE.  MOTHER NATURE IS INDEED A SHITLADY-- QUITE POSSIBLY THE FINEST. SHE IS JUST GETTING WARMED UP, SO STAY TUNED FOR THE "THINNING OUT" OF THE FATS IN COMING GENERATIONS Edit: Just giving credit to @theepilepticferret for uttering the "Mother nature is a shitlady" phrase in this comment before I did.