You're talking about protecting people from their own decisions, ... What you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, that's pretty personal.

You're talking about protecting people from their own decisions,

What you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, that's pretty personal. It doesn't get much more personal than that.

It's a question of what people want,

People should have a choice whether they want to engage in risky activities.

What the anti-fat activists are saying is, people don't want what they ought to want, and therefore the government has to coercively change what they want.