Obesity; maybe there's a positive side I've been thinking about this for some time and would like to share, since I'm not a greedy whale.   So they say that this generation will be the first to not live longer than their parents, due to obesity. We act like it's a bad thing that fats refuse to lose weight since this will eventually kill them, but is it really?   The human race has been expanding at an incredible and ever-increasing rate since the industrial revolution, now reaching over 7 billion. Natural selection has effectively been destroyed in the advent of modern medicine and social security measures, and the more our population increases, the more dangerous it becomes (think a lack of physical space, food shortages, increased carbon emissions and therefore global warming, etc). We need a new form of natural selection to sort the wheat from the chaff and the weak from the strong. Enter, obesity.  Since fats are almost universally weak-willed, wrak-minded, and physically weak, not to mention generally vile, it only seems correct that they are the ones to die off first. Obesity will hopefully be a very effective method of population control.