Indeed. You're not fat through any fault of your own. Certainly not because of anything you ate. It's genetic. Now you can feel good about yourself and not

Indeed. You're not fat through any fault of your own. Certainly not because of anything you ate. It's genetic. Now you can feel good about yourself and not have to try. This is us, several miles down the road we started down in the '70s when we started teaching kids Self Esteem without any correlation to the things they need to do to actually earn that self esteem. You're special just the way you are. Combine that with the basic American right of "nothing is ever your fault", and here we are. A whole country full of people who refuse to take any responsibility for their own actions. And we just got done doing this a month ago... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=751311 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=751311