Pro-Ana Sites

Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
You should say Tyne Daly is hot. But, only in her Cagney and Lacey days, right?

I don't know what she looked like when she was younger..my dad says she looked pretty good though. I like her character on the show..as well as a few others...and there's nothing to do at 4 in the afternoon so why not watch some shitty American TV shows....

Tyne Daly has never been hot.

Well..she's no George Clooney but alright anyways.....are we kind of off topic though?

Originally posted by Storm
Pro Anorexia (Pro-Ana) is an on line movement made up of websites, chat rooms and message boards that support anorexia.

Unlike websites designed to help remove anorexia tendencies, pro anorexia websites are created to help support anorexia and negative body image. The pro anorexia websites typically contain on line journals, tips and tricks for successful anorexia, pictures of thin women, quotations, and chat rooms or message boards where the women can communicate.

Many of the websites clearly state that they are not about recovery, but regard anorexia as a lifestyle and conscious choice, not an illness or disorder.

Web servers are continuing to remove pro anorexia and pro bulimia sites as they appear.

I was shocked by what I’ ve read and seen on these sites.

There are always all kinds of people around. People do what they need to do, because all of us are at our various phases on an eternal journey through life.

Originally posted by Storm
Pro Anorexia (Pro-Ana) is an on line movement made up of websites, chat rooms and message boards that support anorexia.

Unlike websites designed to help remove anorexia tendencies, pro anorexia websites are created to help support anorexia and negative body image. The pro anorexia websites typically contain on line journals, tips and tricks for successful anorexia, pictures of thin women, quotations, and chat rooms or message boards where the women can communicate.

Many of the websites clearly state that they are not about recovery, but regard anorexia as a lifestyle and conscious choice, not an illness or disorder.

Web servers are continuing to remove pro anorexia and pro bulimia sites as they appear.

I was shocked by what I’ ve read and seen on these sites.

I was going to make a thread discussing this.

Um...anorexia isn't a way of life, it is a sickness. I think that all the blogs that are for this kind of crap should be shut down because I said so. And the whole unhealthy thing.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Guess what? Anorexics already starve themselves. Kind of comes in with the package.

They do not need to be encouraged to kill themselves. If you encourage someone who is already very vunerable to kill themselves, and they do, you are an accessory to murder.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Slight difference between actively threatening the life of the country's leader, and telling people that it's good being very skinny, isn't there?

Threatening the countries leader is still my free speech.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Slight difference between racial assault, and telling people that it's good being very skinny, isn't there?

It is still free speech.

How is it possible that a human believes any of that?

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
How is it possible that a human believes any of that?

-AC

What? That these people could actually start websites such as this, or the people who believe their nonsense?

Originally posted by Makedde
They do not need to be encouraged to kill themselves. If you encourage someone who is already very vunerable to kill themselves, and they do, you are an accessory to murder.

Hahahaha.

You can't murder yourself, first off. Secondly, no-one is encouraging people to kill themselves, are they? How about tobacco and alcohol companies?

Originally posted by Makedde

Threatening the countries leader is still my free speech.

Free speech is always limited to the extent that it will cause unwanted direct harm to another. If you threaten someone's life, that's not a matter of free speech, it's intimating that you are about to commit a crime. The worst crime, in fact.

If you tell someone it's good to starve other people to death, and they do so, then you have brought about unwanted harm. If you tell people that starvation is good fun, and they try it- well, that's a whole other issue.

If someone told you to jump off a bridge, and cetera.

If someone told someone else to push you off a bridge- whole different ballpark.

These sites should be stopped.

There dangerous to impresionable minds.

The WWE is dangerous to impressionable minds.

Enough said. Literally enough said.

-AC

Check out this chick. 🙁
http://luartriste.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/mummy11.JPG

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
You can't murder yourself, first off. Secondly, no-one is encouraging people to kill themselves, are they? How about tobacco and alcohol companies?

Smoking is a choice, anorexia is not. Tobacco companies don't tell people it's good to smoke.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Free speech is always limited to the extent that it will cause unwanted direct harm to another.

That's what these people do! They cause harm to vunerable people.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
If you tell people that starvation is good fun, and they try it- well, that's a whole other issue.

They are placing someone in indirect harm.

Originally posted by Makedde
Smoking is a choice, anorexia is not.

Exactly. Anorexia isn't a choice.

Originally posted by Makedde

That's what these people do! They cause harm to vunerable people.

Stop condescending. No-one requires your help to make their choices, which apparently 'aren't choices'.

Originally posted by Makedde

They are placing someone in indirect harm.

Do you know how stupid that sounds?

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Exactly. Anorexia isn't a choice.

So if isn't a choice, it's an illness, wy should these sick ****s be allowed to encourage these people to lose weight? They are the ones contributing to the persons ill health.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Stop condescending. No-one requires your help to make their choices, which apparently 'aren't choices'.

When these people are being deliberately targetted by these sick ****s, it isn't a choice for the anorexics who are sucked in by their brainwashing.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Do you know how stupid that sounds?

I don't care. Why the hell would you think it's alright for these people to run websites like this? Obviously, you have never suffered from anorexia, or known anyone who has suffered from it.

Originally posted by Makedde
So if isn't a choice, it's an illness, wy should these sick ****s be allowed to encourage these people to lose weight? They are the ones contributing to the persons ill health.

That would be because we live in a society that values free speech.

Originally posted by Makedde

When these people are being deliberately targetted by these sick ****s, it isn't a choice for the anorexics who are sucked in by their brainwashing.

Have you been on the internet recently? Last time I checked, you go to websites; they don't come to you.

Originally posted by Makedde

I don't care. Why the hell would you think it's alright for these people to run websites like this? Obviously, you have never suffered from anorexia, or known anyone who has suffered from it.

I know several people that have had anorexia. This line of thinking is idiotic. I value free speech because it is the correct way to run a society; NOT because I happen to have avoided all things that I might want censored.

If this path of action were to be followed, you would be circumscribing free speech.

Now, let's look at the implications. To ban something because you perceive it as a risk to others means that anything that is a potential risk to anybody should be banned. It's a hysterical knee-jerk reaction that demeans the person involved.

If we ban something like this, and then do not ban everything that can conceivably cause harm to even the most fragile of people, it is an irrational, melodramatic and hypocritical response.

It is apposite that these three adjectives apply perfectly to every contribution you have left in this thread.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
That would be because we live in a society that values free speech.

So if I say that that I hope the President gets blown up, I shouldn't get in trouble, because it's free speech, and if I want to call a black person a ******, I can, because it's free speech, right?

Serious lack of intelligence on your part, the likes of which I've never seen on KMC.

-AC

Originally posted by Makedde
So if I say that that I hope the President gets blown up, I shouldn't get in trouble, because it's free speech

Yes. New to all this?

Originally posted by Makedde

and if I want to call a black person a ******, I can, because it's free speech, right?

Yes. You seem pretty keen on that one, for some reason. You would also face the consequences of your actions, but no-one says you can't say that; although in some instances that would be an offence, in which case it would be dealt with appropriately.

Perhaps you should learn what free speech is before you charge in with your over-emotional reactions. It's a more valuable concept than simply giving someone the right to be racially abusive, which seems to be the impression under which you labour.

I am not in any way racist, I assure you of that. I just think that if these people are allowed to encourage young girls to starve themselves, and it's free speech, I should have freedom of speech to say whatever I like, as long I cause no one physical harm.