If a person knows or should know that eating copious orders of super-sized McDonald's products is unhealthy and may result in weight gain, ... it is not the place of the law to protect them from their own excesses.

As one judge put it, if a person knows or should know that eating copious orders of super-sized McDonald's products is unhealthy and could result in weight gain, it is not the place of the law to protect them from their own excess.

Bringing the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, fabulous guest vocalists and this super-sized chorus together to perform Beethoven's Ninth reflects the nature of this revolutionary piece -- it requires all 240 people on stage to do justice to the power and magnificence of Beethoven's final symphony.

Locking away appetite, anger, the fullness of life, anorexia helps cover up whatever struggles inside. With its controlling bouts of bingeing and starvation, of trance and half-life, it becomes a shield to fend off despair and longing and what most of use would see as ordinary responsible behavior.

And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?

A person that knows what he wants is dangerous.