Why fatties are the most deplorable of all addicts TLDR: They trade their very lives for one more hotpocket. Food addiction and comfort eating get compared to other addictions fairly frequently, but that's not really fair.  The kind of food addiction that leads to someone the size of Boogie is far, far worse than drugs.  Why?  Because at least drugs give you something amazing.  Regardless of how bad they are for you, it cannot be argued that taking drugs can make you feel simply incredible.  It's one of those things that makes me never ever want to try it, because I don't want to spend the rest of my life unable to reach that high again.  Many drugs trigger a release of dopamine that is simply not possible through other means. Fatties though?  Their addiction is food, usually bad food.  I might (well, not really) have a little understanding for someone who got fat because they had an amazing personal chef preparing incredible food every day.  Probably not, but since I've never seen it I have to leave it open for the sake of argument.  But your average fatty gets fat on junk food.  JUNK FOOD!  That's the thing that makes it even worse!  They're not getting fat on filet mignon, they're getting fat on Funyuns.   I refuse to have any sympathy for someone who is willing to trade their ability to have sex, to walk, to wipe their own ass for hot pockets.  Throwing your life away just so you don't have to watch how much Mountain Dew you drink is simply disgusting.  There is no other way to put it.