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From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: fashionable bodies
Message-ID: <286@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 18:37:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 18:37:23 1985
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> In article <1207@topaz.ARPA> Liz Sommers writes:
> >Oh come on now!  I am beginning to think that people are also taking
> >conditioning too far.  
> > [...]
> 
> I  wish to differ.  There are always problems with exercising; it mostly
> comes down to a question of whether you want to or not.  

Exactly.  Therefore it's a decision each individual has to make.  Like
dressing 'fashionably', or wearing a seatbelt (oops, getting into contro-
versial territory), or taking kids to restaurants, or working in computer
science, or being religious, or having a particular set of morals.  If 
you make a decision on any one of these things and it affects someone else,
then I think it's OK to argue (or, preferably, discuss... :-)).  If your
decision hurts nobody else, then why make them feel guilty about it?  For
example, I think it makes a lot of sense to be a science major, or at the
very least to plan ahead for one's career & future life.  But I have plenty
of friends who majored in English, or French, or history, and have no plans
for the future or any idea of what they want to do with their lives.  But
I don't think I have any right to make them feel guilty for this decision --
because it doesn't affect me, and because they are trying to make the best
decision for THEMSELVES, not me.  I personally don't have the time to
exercise seriously.  It certainly wouldn't hurt me to get more exercise 
(although I think I'm in reasonably good shape without it), but it would
mean giving up something else.  I choose not to.

	marie desjardins