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I'm having a hard time with this one. On the one hand, I feel like by promoting this I'd be promoting a negative. On the other hand, what's the difference between this and being overly fat? If the issue is health of the model, either extreme is just as bad. So why do I find this more reprehensible?
I remember an old quote that I won't quote right, it was from Montaigne's Assays.. It went something like "There is nothing in this world that we can't get used to".. Fuck let me find it. Okay here it is.
On Habit: And on never easily changing a traditional law
Exerpt:
Darius asked some Greeks what it would take to persuade them to adopt the Indian custom of eating their dead feathers (for that was the ritual among Indians who reckoned that the most auspicious burial they could give their fathers was within themselves): they replied that nothing on earth wouyld make them do it. Then he made an assay at persuading those Indians to abandon their way and adopt that of the Greeks (which was to cremate their fathers' corpses): he horrified them even more.
We all do likewise: usage hides the true aspect of things from us:
"Nil adio magnum nec tam mirabile quicquam
Principio, quod non minuant mirarier omnes
Paulatim."
[There is nothing which at first seems so great or so wondrous which we do not all gradually wonder at less and less. - Lucretius]
We're just more used to seeing obscenely fat people, than obscenely skinny people.
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