Yeah. I said it: Fat people.
It's been the other side of forever since I've posted on this thing, so I'm going to start ranting about fat people.
I got back from lunch today, and in my normal effort to stave off productivity, I decided to read up on some news. Among other interesting tidbits, I found an interesting article from CNN, link to follow.
Interesting Article
To save you the trouble of opening the article, I'll explain it briefly here... if you already read it, skip down a bit.
Basically, there is a college that says you have to take a health class if you are fat and want to graduate. All sorts of fat people and people who think they are doing great things for America and it's fatties are raising all kinds of noise, complaining about discrimination. I'll get more into this after we have recovered anyone who was skipping down a bit because they were all clickey-happy and read the article early.
Ok. Now that all the children are aboard, back to the rant.
Discrimination.
Kind of a strange word, really.
Essentially, the word just means choosing between two things or people and treating them differently because of it. Of course, modern colloquialism has put a negative connotation to the word, so we can't really wander around talking about the glories of discrimination without being shunned or shot or other nasty things that begin with the letter s.
(Anyone who skipped down a bit and skipped down this far should skip up a bit)
The people who think they are doing great things figure that they have a duty to destroy discrimination, but sometimes I wonder if we are discriminating against discrimination.
On Dictionary.com, a part of the definition of discrimination reads "treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit." (Dictionary.com)
Nobody mentioned in the article really had anything negative to say about the program other than the fact that it was discrimination, so if they go by that kind of logic, they are really just attacking discrimination simply by virtue of its being discrimination. It is my opinion that those persons should probably sit down in a corner and reassess their thoughts on discrimination for a little while.
Little things like this really underline the oddities of our society. Where else could a program be inplaced to do nothing but help people live better lives, with no real negative impacts on anyone, and be declared a discriminatory and unethical program?
It appears to me that people seem to concentrate more on doing what is right according to words and technical definitions than what is right in the real world.
Thought of the day: Society- Square yourself away.
