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Alex · 12-05-2005, 11:15 AM

I don't think being overweight is a sign of weak character. Plenty of fat people are happy being fat or have weighed the various choices and choose a course that includes being fat.

I do think that complaining that things are out of your control that very much are in your control but just difficult is a character flaw. I don't know anybody on this message board well enough to know if anybody has this character flaw. But I know plenty of fat people in real life who do. But it is not a character flaw that follows from being fat, it is just one that for some is revealed by being fat.

People bitch about the choices they've made all the time and to absolve themselves recast them as something other than a choice. As destiny, biology, conspiracy.

So, again, I'm not judging anybody unless I have enough information to judge. But you suggested judging for fatness should be in the same category as judging for baldness or shortness. Fatness, for most of the people who are, is not the same as bald and short and therefore the same logic for not judging a short (it is out of their control) person does not apply to 99% of fat people (it is in their control). That's all I was replying to.

Most of the time you shouldn't judge a fat person because you have no idea why they're fat and how they feel about it.

100% of the time you shouldn't judge a short person simply because they have absolutely no control (though perhaps that is changing in our modern technological/medical age); also they're so small and cherubic, those short people, how could you possibly think bad things of them?

12-05-2005, 11:15 AM	#11
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I don't think being overweight is a sign of weak character. Plenty of fat people are happy being fat or have weighed the various choices and choose a course that includes being fat. I do think that complaining that things are out of your control that very much are in your control but just difficult is a character flaw. I don't know anybody on this message board well enough to know if anybody has this character flaw. But I know plenty of fat people in real life who do. But it is not a character flaw that follows from being fat, it is just one that for some is revealed by being fat. People bitch about the choices they've made all the time and to absolve themselves recast them as something other than a choice. As destiny, biology, conspiracy. So, again, I'm not judging anybody unless I have enough information to judge. But you suggested judging for fatness should be in the same category as judging for baldness or shortness. Fatness, for most of the people who are, is not the same as bald and short and therefore the same logic for not judging a short (it is out of their control) person does not apply to 99% of fat people (it is in their control). That's all I was replying to. Most of the time you shouldn't judge a fat person because you have no idea why they're fat and how they feel about it. 100% of the time you shouldn't judge a short person simply because they have absolutely no control (though perhaps that is changing in our modern technological/medical age); also they're so small and cherubic, those short people, how could you possibly think bad things of them?
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