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Anti-scientific and moral bigotry runs rampant in RWR, Libertarian and Randian circles. They revel in any excuse to find fault with other people for their own self-serving reasoning.
Disabled? Elderly? Obese? Poor?
Get out of the way, you might interfere with my pleasure or fun, or even cost me money!
FOAD!
Most conditions are temporary and a reaction to all kinds of input, emotional, physical and some beyond the control of the person affected. Some are not temporary.
All of it makes them 'The Other.'
You know, 'The Other.' The ones who must be removed from the gene pool to make the world a better place and give more 'freedom and liberty' to those not so afflicted.
Screw diversity. Social Darwinism at its best. Unless it happens to you. All are eligible for problems.
I have told some who have been teased because of their weight or other differences that don't match the Hollywood ideal:
They say you are ugly, but you can lose weight. But they can't lose the ugliness inside them and it comes out of their mouth. But it says more about them, than it does you. It is THEIR problem, not YOURS.
Answers for those who feel entitled to degrade and discriminate, could be drawn from other cultures, or even our own principles.
Not conforming in body image or any other way that does not harm others, is only a crime to a flock of chickens or a pack looking for a pecking order. Pure reflexive, animalist response. Not human.
Same as being overweight. Some claim sick or elderly people are in the way, dragging their standard of living down. How about looking up a bit higher, to the ones who kept your wages down, took your home, your health insurance, or whatever?
How very telling that some will turn on those they consider beneath them while they are too cowardly to look at who is really pulling the strings and who is benefiting by division.
Would they rail against this image:
If a loved one lost an eye, a finger, a limb, their job, their home or gets fat, should they be discarded? Just how shallow can one be? Are the ones judging others prepared to FOAD if Dame Fortune abandons them?
If one's mother gains weight over the years, do her years of sacrifice and love for her child, turn into something worthless?
Erich Fromm described the error of market values applied to human beings. Are we commodities, to be judged by what is trendy or pleases the eye as fickle as that is, but never looking at who is manipulating that perception, in the end?
To which I say:
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