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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. But I do enjoy looking at myself when I have a good body.

Honestly, being fit is really easy. It's just requires you to eat right and workout consistently.  It's like going to school, in which getting good grades just means you need to do your homework every day/week.

It's not hard, and I find it odd that people have such a hard time doing it consistently.  I guess this sentence makes me sound like I feel superior, but I assure you that I do not, because I don't find that being physically fit is difficult. And so I don't feel superior for doing something easy.[/quote]

+1. I’ve been physically fit my entire life, and no discipline has been needed. I’m just living life normally. I too don’t know why or even how people struggle so much that they feel like the need lots of discipline to stay physically fit, but it definitely isn’t a sign of superiority. [/quote]

+2. I’m in Finland right now, and nearly everyone I see looks physically fit. Lots of people biking, walking, swimming, etc. I find it hard to believe that this is the result of some kind of moral superiority or excess discipline. It’s just that the society here has made it easy to be physically fit. [/quote]

If you were mentally fit, you’d know that it is *significantly harder* to be physically fit in the United States than it is in many European countries.  Our lifestyles are not even close to the same.  So in Finland it might not take any effort or discipline, but HERE it absolutely does.

That being said, [b]on a population level you’re basically making the case that their lifestyle is… what’s the word?  Superior[/b]?[/quote]

The original post is about whether you feel superior, not whether you are superior. If you get an Olympic gold medal and your friend gets an Olympic silver medal, you are superior. However, you're not egotistic so you don't feel superior.

Here, people in Finland are healthier so they are superior, but they probably don't feel superior because they're not really trying very hard.[/quote]

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