It is Spring Break at Casa Holt. [link] Bobby and friends.
I can smell the chlorine.
I don't think there's a problem with advocating good health as a personal virtue. In fact, I support that notion. It is virtuous. It's better for you, and it's better for the society. If smoking had been banned in offices decades ago there would've been hundreds of thousands of fewer deaths by second hand smoke. I think banning smoking in bars and restaurants similarly spares restaurant workers.
I'm not convinced there's a direct correlation between advocating health (and I have a hard time seeing why anybody would think that's a bad idea), and the culture of shame and judgment about obesity. Or even non-skinniness.
It may give some people a place of smug superiority upon which to rest their judgments, but people are weird about culturally derived notions of beauty. Fair skin used to be in, then tans, now fake tans. Different body shapes and types have been in vogue in different eras and cultures. There's always going to be some hierarchy of culturally derived desirability.
Getting on my flight in Charlotte 5 hours late. I feel like Drew.
I only wear pants to bed if I have a houseguest.
See, that's when I
don't
wear pants.
Visited a bunch of relatives. I don't really want to get into details right now, but I just need to say, Alzheimer's really really sucks.
Thanks, Vortex. I've got one relative who died of it, two more in advanced stages, and one who might be in the early stages. (Well, OK, two of those four aren't technically relatives, but they're either married into the family or such close family friends that they might as well be family.) It's just tragic and terrifying to watch.
I've had standard dementia in my family, but early onset alz in a close family friend which has been difficult to say the least. It sucks and its heartbreaking and awful. I'm sorry you have to go through it too.
I'm sorry, Hil. It is horribly difficult for the loved ones.
{{{Hil}}} Alzheimer's is so difficult and heartbreaking. I'm sorry.
There was just a tribute to Adenhart, the baseball player that was killed the other day in a hit and run with two of his friends, before the start of the A's/Red Sox game. So sad.
I'm not convinced there's a direct correlation between advocating health (and I have a hard time seeing why anybody would think that's a bad idea)
Advocating behaviors that lead to good health is not the same thing as setting up health/healthy behavior as a *virtue.* Making it a virtue creates a false dichotomy where one set of behavior makes you a "good" person, and another set makes you a "bad" person, when in fact the behavior is entirely morally neutral.
You may think I'm arguing semantics, but "virtue" has a very specific meaning, and that matters.
Also, I fail to see how "unhealthy" behaviors that impact only the individual engaging in them affect society.
Obviously secondhand smoke isn't in the same category, because smoking is a behavior that affects the people around the smoker. But one person's consumption of Twinkies doesn't affect society.
