There is no real point to the list, that's my point. You're exactly right. It's a partial list of some of the ways that people sometimes under certain conditi

There is no real point to the list, that's my point. You're exactly right. It's a partial list of some of the ways that people sometimes under certain conditions use the word disease. That would be merely boring except that he compares the list to the far more carefully specified definitions 'rube' and 'blegg' and subsequently uses the list as criteria in the next 3 paragraphs. He treats the list as if it's an actual list of semantic features, when in fact it's not. Ultimately he gives up on the question entirely: So, is obesity really a disease? Well, is Pluto really a planet? Once we state that obesity satisfies some of the criteria but not others, it is meaningless to talk about an additional fact of whether it "really deserves to be a disease" or not. What a waste of time.