(February 13, 2016 at 7:48 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: I take your other point, but only if you agree that this would have to apply to every other possible human action performed as well- namely, that there's no choice in anything we do. But that kind of argument fails by virtue of lacking specificity(if there's no choice in anything we do, what's the point of defending her non-choice of being fat, and not my non-choice for criticising her as such?)
Come on, it's far easier to control one's words than it is to control one's weight ...
You can certainly say what you want, though. I just don't accept your view that overweight people are so because they generally choose to be so.