Such a legislation is really vanity driven. The sight of a fat person is just so offensively abhorrent that it must be legislated off the face of the planet!
If they were about healthy lifestyles, they'd ban smoking. There's tons of more smokers than there are fat folks in Japan.
But smokers aren't ugly like fat people are, so we must eliminate the fat folks.
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Cameron originally envisioned the Terminator as a small, unremarkable man, giving it the ability to blend in more easily. As a result, his first choice for the part was Lance Henriksen. O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist but Cameron did not think that such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer.
-From the Collector's Edition DVD of The Terminator
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