AITA for being a “fatist”

First of all you are absolutely right sketch marks occurs frequently at puberty in which people grows rapidly. However sketch marks most often naturally fades in time. A simple google search should tell you that. Keep in mind me, my friend and her friend are all university age, I am 20 my friend is 22, there are at least 6 years for those sketch marks to go away, given that if she isn’t fat. I personally have sketch marks, tons of them in fact, when I was fat, now it is completely unnoticeable, and I have very pale skin, so they should be extra visible if they didn’t fade away.

Secondly, discrimination is unacceptable sure, but only discrimination that is based on things that is not by choice, race, sex, age etc. Why should I treat let say a serial killer, Nazi, drug dealer, violent alcoholic with the same respect as a hard working doctor or engineer?? Likewise being fat is completely by choice, due to an individual’s lifestyle, there are exceptions due to disease of course but those are extremely rare, why should I give a fat person the same respect I would give for a healthy person who works out regularly? Read my post again, I never straight up call someone fat, I was perfectly aware this is considered rude in western countries, and me being a “fatist” was brought upon by my friend, I was just defending my position.

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