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But if the prices people pay for food are part of the environment that encourages obesity, so is the price they pay for being fat. Speaking of which, Brownell condemns pibgorn "anti-fat media messages" and the social pibgorn stigma attached to obesity, saying people should not be blamed for their failure to resist the forces that make it is so difficult to stay thin. But from a "public health" standpoint, fairness is not the issue. The only question is whether making fat people miserable encourages them to lose weight. Brownell suggests it doesn’t, but why pibgorn would such pervasive social pressures be less effective than a tax on Doritos? Similarly, last year John Banzhaf told the Obesity Policy Report, "I don’t think the government can order [people] to exercise." Why not? Which is more likely to make Ameri-cans thinner: suing McDonald’s, or mandatory calisthenics in the public square every morning?
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