Brigette Schoenung
1 min readJul 10, 2020

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The word "deserve" is extremely problematic. There are many people-- disabled, with diabetes, cancer, et al, who don't "deserve" the body they have, like it's some kind of karmic punishment for not being good enough or working hard enough. This is a medieval thought process that suggests there is some kind of implied immorality with illness, disability, deformities, etc. I don't argue that those who are fit worked hard to get there, and those who are not failed to do the work- most of the time anyway, though I've seen plenty for whom genetics was a gift or a curse. But, there are too many exceptions to the rule (millions) for the rule to be accurate. The part about expensive clothes is bang on

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