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Anorexics
United
The latest special interest to put a bid in for “tolerance.”
By
NR Editors
From “The Week,” December 17, 2001,
issue, of National Review
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 norexia
causes organ damage and infertility, and can be fatal — but
its champions are the latest special interest to put a bid in for
"tolerance." "Pro-ana" websites — offering
chatrooms, 500-calorie-a-day menus, and tips on avoiding detection
— call self-starvation an empowering "lifestyle and a
decision, not an 'illness' to be fixed." Earlier this year,
the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
asked Internet engines to shut down or "unlist" pro-ana
sites, and some did. But as fast as one site comes down, another
springs up to take its place; moreover, the predictable rumblings
of political action against such restrictions have already begun.
A culture that accepts all lifestyles as equally worthwhile has
few arguments against even practices that kill or permanently disable
those who choose them.
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