Unless a person is diseased, carrying a parasitic twin, or has a monstrous tumor, there is no excuse to be fat. It is something that people do willfully to themselves. My favorite cousin died at 18, and weighed 390 pounds. His mother died at 37 weighing in at 500 pounds and needed a special coffin.

Should fat people be held up to ridicule? No, not in person, but they still receive plenty of derision for what they have done to themselves on forums and in jokes. Truthfully, I hold them in contempt for what they have made themselves into, because I still miss my cousin, but I try to be compassionate to them. At the buffet my elderly aunts drag me to, some of the people are so fat that they are in wheel chairs, and eat tray after tray after tray of fat and grease and slops. I can hardly eat as they slurp their way to the bottom of every bowl.

We all have our own tastes; many of the above listed books I have no desire to ever read no matter what famous person liked them. My favorite is "The Wind in the Willows".

Here it is straight from my activist style manual: "Humans are little more than gibbering apes. Refrain from referring to them as anything but." As for the kittens, that gets a green light from the Supreme Leader. The dancing bears are still being debated.

Well, those are good answers. Thank you.

Very nice story.

On his deathbed, my father feverishly called out for his son. My only brother and I told him that we were there by his side. And then my father said "I want **** here too! I haven't seen him for so long." He died a few hours later and we have no idea who he may have been talking about.

I knew someone who ate a whole wheel of cheese, and died of an intestinal blockage because of it. How many students will suffer the same fate?

Whoever made this is a hero, because it is more than any of us have ever done.

Do animals exist only for our amusement and exploitation? No, certainly not. The animals love this! What donkey wouldn't love to enter a crowded, noisy, brightly lit gym with a gibbering ape clutching its back? And think of the joy and excitement the donkey feels when it is happily chasing the ball, and hears the roars of laughter from the frenzied wild-eyed crowd?

(Wait...1...2...3..."felix is a jackass, so there!")

Thank you, Briannana. Perhaps you would be so kind as to expound upon the negative effects? The positive effects seem clear: less suffering for children, parents who could not safely have children before may now do so, and so on. However, the negative effects seem less obvious.

Thank you in advance.

A ship without a cat is an unlucky ship. Doomed, even.

The ethical dilemmas will almost entirely be religious in nature, and popular also among the "we're playing God!!!"-type Luddites.

How can we induce this genetic modification in most children? Sure, they may be slightly or moderately retarded, but they'll be peaceful and friendly, and the rest of us can enjoy their elfin antics.

I <3 the turtle ant.

Betty White is pregnant?

Or Pedobear.