[Christopher]

I would argue that people who become overweight ARE lazy and don't take care of themselves. The quality of their work may not suffer, and they may in every other respect be functional members of society, but being overweight has a direct correlation to an inactive lifestyle and unhealthy diet (save extremely rare 'glandular' or 'metabolism' issues). Any employer conciously or subconciously is going to hire/reward/respect healthier people. However, our culture has taken the ideal to the extreme. We now find impossibly thin women disgracing the covers of every magazine under the sun. The anorexic-thin model is used to sell everything from cars to software to vacations. This extreme is unacceptable because it makes people strive and respect something that is simply unobtainable. But I also believe being overweight is equally disgusting. Healthy people look healthy and will be rewarded socially for it. Natural selection?

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Name : Christopher, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 22, City : Chicago, State : IL Country : United States, Occupation : Designer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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