A conversation with my 13 and 14 year old nieces and teaching young people it is not ok to be fat. I was stopped at a service station with them (both slim) and a hugely fat man walked past my car. Younger niece laughs "look how fat he is!" older niece "you shouldn't laugh at him, it's not kind!". Something in me snapped and I told them both that it was OK to laugh behind the backs of fat people as they entirely brought it on themselves. Older niece then asks "what about people in wheelchairs, surely it's not their fault?" and I told them that it was. I told them you eat as much as you need to eat, if that's less than normal because you're in a wheelchair then you eat less than normal. They nodded and we moved on. Was I wrong to force this opinion on them? I know young people should be allowed to make up their own mind but they already have the message that fats are helpless victims constantly thrust upon them and I wanted to give a dissenting voice to that.