[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Yeah, I never said I didn't hold this guy in the same light as the alcoholic, drug addict, or smoker. They all disgust me because they are all conscious choices to basically ruin your life.

I absolutely commend those that have gotten out of addictions and for the most part it does take hitting rock bottom and it takes a lot of work on their part, so great for them.

I suppose where I see eating as being different is two fold.
1) being this fat to me is in a large part due to lazyness, you eat and eat and eat but don't go do anything else. Does a heroin addict have the ability to work it off? No. But someone who eats a dozen donuts can go outside and run it off. You do too much of one and too little of the other and you get like this dude.
2) If you're hungry all the time, why eat such crap? If a big fat guy is depressed he can eat an apple, but a heroin addict doesn't have a healthy alternative to heroin.

The fat thing really bothers me because for the most part I see it as vicious cycle, you're depressed you eat, you eat you're fat, your fat you get depressed, not much different form other addictions I suppose, but I'd be willing to bet that a large percentage of dudes this size didn't start out depressed, they started out eating doritos and watching tv, then they got fat, and then they got depressed, and there goes the problem.
In a lot of cases the problem that causes the addiction is brought on by first overdoing the act that becomes the addiction (ie the addiction creates itself, and that was your own choice). But I'd also wager, that other addictions such as booze and drugs are brought on for the most part by problems that have nothing to do with the addictive act.