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Lets assume that all the physical health problems are solvable with a magic pill, even if this is 500 years in the future.

Is there an intrinsic, rather than pragmatic, reason why mass obesity would be a bad thing? To use the given WALL-E example, what would be so bad about living in that world?

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WALL-E is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the last few survivors who escape to space become lazy and ignorant. When they return to Earth at the end of the movie, they finally realize how much they had lost, such as the ability to dance.

For such a magic pill to exist would be wonderful and I'd love to have that option, but WALL-E as an example undermines your argument...

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