Mon, Jan-18-16, 23:07
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Posts: 6,498
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Plan: VLC, mostly meat
Stats: 202/200/165
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Progress: 5%
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Originally Posted by porthardy
Can you be obese and genuinely happy?
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Define happy. If it's the dictionary definition:
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1. delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing:
to be happy to see a person.
2. characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy:
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Based on the 1st definition, you could ask the same question like this:
Are you happy to be obese?
Clears things up, doesn't it? Synonyms give us a better picture:
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1. joyous, joyful, blithe, cheerful, merry, contented, gay, blissful, satisfied.
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Note the last one. Now ask that question instead:
Are you satisfied to be obese?
The implication here is that obesity was a goal, it was achieved, and satisfaction is the result. Does that sound like something to be happy about? Not to me. Indeed, the opposite is true. To get leaner is a goal, it is achieved, satisfaction is the result. That sounds more like it, we don't try to rationalize it, it just makes sense that this would make us happy. On the other hand, even with obesity, there's everything else to be happy about, or at least it's a possibility. So here, it's a different question:
Can you be genuinely happy in spite of obesity? Yes, you can.
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