Don sells cigarettes at his pharmacy, because he believes that people have the right to do unhealthy things.
He has "some qualities," Hessler writes, "that may seem contradictory": Don sells cigarettes at his pharmacy, because he believes that people have the right to do unhealthy things.
One argument is that the poorer people are, the more likely they are to do unhealthy things that brighten their otherwise dull lives temporarily.
People in the United States choose to do unhealthy things.
Healthy bodies come in sizes fat and thin, as do unhealthy ones.
You may even do unhealthy things to distract and numb yourself.
How do we know that the person we are "complimenting" for changing size isn't, in fact, ill, or terrified, or stressed, or hurting, or needing those words so badly that they will do unhealthy things to hear them?
Technocrats, on the other hand, believe that they have the ability to write strong enough regulations or clever enough formulas to shift the marketplace away from doing unhealthy things.
Believing you're too fat to indulge in ice cream on a spring day or feeling inferior because you wear size fourteen or more, instead of a size four, or doing unhealthy things to shrink your body hurts you more than your weight does.
My concentration is barely existent, and more times than not I alternate between staring at my computer and feeling trapped behind a curtain too heavy to lift/inadequate in comparison to everyone else and doing unhealthy amounts of exercise in an attempt to distract myself and feel something, anything other than flat.
