RE: "I may be fat, but I beat my eating disorder"
February 13, 2016 at 7:48 am
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2016 at 7:49 am by Excited Penguin.)
(February 13, 2016 at 7:07 am)Irrational Wrote:(February 13, 2016 at 6:29 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Well, the woman mentioned in the OP clearly chose to be like that. You can't have it both ways. You're either naturally too slim or too heavy. I find it hard to believe that she wasn't able to struck a balance.
Also, lots of other people choose to be fat as well, when they eat everything in their path and don't exercise enough. How is this even an argument?!
Chose to look like what exactly? Disgusting fat? She's not. She's beautiful.
With regards to your other point, no, that would not necessarily constitute a choice. Depression could be playing a role, for example. And we know depression is linked to lack of motivation to do certain activities and also binge eating.
If she identifies herself as fat, I have no choice but to view her as such. She does look particularly disgusting to me, though, and I already argued for the role personality, attitude and intelligence plays in this, but I'll go into some further details below.
I don't see her as beautiful at all(and I repeat, this is subjective, of course). She looked better when she was slimer, not that she was exactly a beauty then either. As I said, I'm fairly certain personality and intelligence modifies your appearance somewhat, and she looks particularly stupid to me. If that kind of thing works for you, that's great(not really, though, from an evolutionary perspective).
I take your other point, but only if you agree that this would have to apply to every other possible human action performed as well- namely, that there's no choice in anything we do. But that kind of argument fails by virtue of lacking specificity(if there's no choice in anything we do, what's the point of defending her non-choice of being fat, and not my non-choice for criticising her as such?)