UK Chicks

[Paheli00]

Re: UK Chicks

@AnnaKarenina

Aww, thanks so much for the invaluable advice.

I wasn’t giving you advice. It was simply an observation on what your education is lacking.

@AnnaKarenina

Let’s all be compassionate and let people seek comfort in fast food to fight their battles. While we are at it, let’s allow them smoke too and drink too and maybe indulge in some recreational drugs because of what they’re going through.

1. There’s nothing to “allow” here. If an adult wants to smoke, drink, or do illegal drugs, there’s not much anything can do to stop that. And if a person is really obese b/c of their eatings habits, then no one can force them to change their habit if they don’t want to change. On the flip side, judging a person b/c of their weight without knowing details about their past/current situation does a lot more damage and doesn’t lead to anything positive.

2. It all comes down to upbringing. To a large extent…we all are products of what we were exposed to starting from birth and what values/habits our parents helped instill within us. This thread is a perfect example of that. Many parents out there did a crappy job at showing kids who to lead a healthy lifestyle. On the flip side, there is no doubt that some parents did an outstanding job at teaching their kids how to achieve that perfect body…yet completely failed at making sure they learn basic personality traits like respect, open-mindedness, humility, kindness etc.