Fat Shaming, the Unethical Advice
Who agrees that shaming is ethical? Whoever saying “no one” cannot deny that it has never happen to them. Although considering shaming unethical, they have at least once ever shamed another person. One would put an objection, “What’s wrong? There is some hidden advice behind our shaming.”
Some researches told us that many fat people were treated unjustly because of their weight. In most workplaces, they are susceptible to being refused to be hired, to getting less wage than other non-fat, to being terminated, and the like. There is perspicuously a sort of aversion to even not continuing stigmatising the fat pertaining to all their whole lives to be the problem in the society.
Our media on advertisement continually allude to them as the owners of unideal bodies by means of displaying incessantly an ideal image of body, namely thin. The thin become the standard of the symbol of the healthier people, even become as the health itself. It is completely strange to put a damaging burden to the fat by way of making the reality upside down that the received persons are only those who can be accustomed to being in accordance with what the social construction determines and dictates.
To advise a person should not duly behave immorally. We do not know how their feelings are once we have scoffed them unless we have truly anticipated that their feelings will only be okay. Yet, supposing that we were they, would we not feel poignant because of what they scoffed?
One would tell me that fat shaming makes the fat aware of what is happening that they are unhealthy, so that we need to advise them by our way, shaming. Certainly, it is neither worthy nor reasonable. We presuppose that by shaming we can sweep the dust of the problem, whereas it has not been considered whether or not they can accept it.
There was a survey conducted by University College London in 2014 which took a conclusion that fat shaming even does not encourage the weight loss but apparently indicated that those who reported weight discrimination gained more weight than those who did not. It is explicit enough that actually our fat shaming does not really render the case solved because probably we never know that what they perceive is in accordance with what we mean.
That we do not mean like that is not pertinent to what they will understand on the grounds that both of us are not in the same ground in understanding the case. Furthermore, we cannot push our choice to be their choice. Human beings must have their own unique choices. Do we not realise that our choice is not the same choice as they are choosing to live? Getting fat may be our problem who do not want to look fat, but according to those who look fat, may not be, or could not be their problem.
At last, we should put aside our preference since whatever we prefer and whatever we consider good or better are possibly not what they prefer and consider. It is the time for us to be more aware of not doing something hurting or damaging someone else. To be moral is the best choice no matter whatever we really do to help make them healthier. Once more, we do not have any right to put a burden to them by claiming that the only way how to be healthier is by being not fat. Eventually, we can arrive at a moral situation in which we do not hurt someone else because the only key of morality is to be friendly to and good at welcoming everyone.