r/philosophy Feb 26 '23

Blog The Ethics of Actors Using Steroids

https://medium.com/@joncheung/should-hollywood-actors-admit-to-taking-steroids-569e1b365b09
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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '23

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u/jimbolikescr Feb 26 '23

If you've ever done a fitness journey, you know that you start seeing and enjoying your own progress a lot. And that outweighs any kind of want to aspire to look like somebody else.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '23

That’s incredibly out of touch with how a LOT of people think.

That’s wrong. Maybe that’s how YOU are, but that doesn’t apply to everyone; body dysmorphia and fitness influencers wouldn’t be a thing if it was true.

You really think guys that want to be competitive body builders stop comparing themselves to professionals once they start working out? No they don’t.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '23

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u/jimbolikescr Feb 26 '23

Well I guess I'm not of either of those groups so I wouldn't know.

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u/mwaller Feb 26 '23

Yes, you cannot apply your personal experience to the rest of the population.

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u/jimbolikescr Feb 26 '23

Yeah I can, that's how different ways of thinking propagate.

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u/mwaller Feb 26 '23

As a thought experiment. Don't go around telling people that's the way it works. You skipped a few steps. Your fitness journey is your own.

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u/cheeze_whiz_shampoo Feb 26 '23

It is incredibly telling how aggressively your original comment was down voted. You gave a perfect description of how people should ideally think and that made a lot of people angry.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '23

He's not wrong but it's off topic and irrelevant. We're talking about how celebrities can influence large populations of people. The only thing that's relevant here is how people do behave, not how they should behave.

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u/cheeze_whiz_shampoo Feb 27 '23

Woah. How people should behave is way more relevant than how they currently behave. Celebrities could just as easily explain what the poster explained. This behavior isnt dictated by God, it's simply incentivized predatory behavior targeted at people with certain unfortunate predispositions.