This article seems to frame things in such a strange way. Maybe instead of trying to get everyone obesity medication, we can instead educate society so we all understand nutrition and diet and can combat the ever-persistent forces of corporations pushing unhealthy food on us?
Yes, because what obese people lack is education.
From my subjective experience in life, what they very often lacked was parents who set the right examples around food. I know that doesn't apply to everyone of course, but I've witnessed it time and time again - an upbringing with deeply disordered routines/practices around food. It's universal among obese people in my life. I speculate that better awareness of diet/nutrition might help to prevent passing on such behaviours, like not feeding the family exclusively a bucket of KFC or McDonalds, or using food as a reward, etc. etc.. I mean, medication won't actually solve what is caused by behaviour, right? Maybe the behaviour can be reduced on a broader scale, over time, via people making better-informed decisions? If parents know their habits around food are basically ensuring their kids will struggle with obesity, maybe they'll make the effort to do something different? Dunno, it seems like a reasonable consideration.