Are you prejudiced against fat people?

[goodsamaritan]

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good,

"that they just don't care about being fat."

See, even though it doesn't really hurt me in any way, I can't help but feel a negative bias towards people like this.

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Negative in what way?

I don't think its irrational to dislike someone for disregarding their health, as long as that dislike is not too intense. It's simply you making a having a preference against what you see as their lack of character. Their would be nothing irrational about disliking someone who is mean, right?

However, it is irrational and prejudicial to jump to conclusions about the fat people that do not follow from deductive reasoning.

Is anyone seeing the distinctions I am trying to draw?

Dislike =/= prejudice, unless the dislike is based on some irrational conclusion. (example: Disliking pedophiles is rational and not prejudice. Disliking all black people because you think all black people are lazy is prejudice)

Making irrational assumptions = prejudice