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Brownell’s complaint was not that such a system would be tyrannical because how much you weigh is your business, not the government’s. Plainly, he doesn’t believe that. Instead, he worried that a weight tax puts too much emphasis on individual responsibility rather than the environment. But if the prices people pay for food are part of the environment that encourages obesity, so online is the price they pay for being fat. Speaking of which, Brownell online condemns online "anti-fat media messages" and the social stigma attached to obesity, saying people should not be blamed for their failure to resist the forces that make it is so difficult to stay thin. But from a "public health" standpoint, fairness is not the issue. The only question is whether making fat people miserable encourages them to lose weight. Brownell suggests it doesn’t, but why would such pervasive social pressures be less effective than a tax on Doritos? Similarly, last year John Banzhaf told the Obesity Policy Report, "I don’t think the government can order [people] to exercise."
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