Police spotting (junction watch)

I think you can differentiate between discriminating against something someone has no control over - like race, and discriminating against something someone does have control over, like weight, or fashion choices. There are degrees of discrimination, it doesn't all fall under one category. It's human nature to discriminate to some extent, we all do it, even if we won't admit to it or try to avoid it.

I agree with lpg, and disagree with Oliver on this.

Speaking from personal experience, when I was younger, at one point I was officially obese. Obviously people took the piss. So what I did was take something positive out of it, and sorted out my diet, got on a bike, and HTFUd. If people had been to scared to say anything I might still be a fat fucker now, rather than having a healthy weight.

Obviously there are exceptional cases, where people have a glandular issue, or a lack of mobility, where they can't do anything about it, but in general being overweight is just the question of the wrong diet, or lack of excercise, and I have little sympathy in that case.