We've all stumbled upon them while surfing on the internet, or we've all at least heard about them. And everyone's wondering whether or not they should be "allowed". As for me, I've read so many opinions about it all that I've ended up feeling the need to make my own heard.
From a totally objective point of view, each and every website has the right to exist - or actually, everybody has the right to build their own website about whatever subject they like. There are sites that can help you build your own bombs out there. There are pornographic and similarly disgusting websites out there. I personnally think that if we're to start banishing websites, those are the ones we should deal with first. But anyway. In the name of free speech, pro-eating disorders sites have the right to be there. And don't tell me free speech has a limit. Maybe it does, but not on the internet. There are a ton of diary websites, amazingly popular - and diaries are for you to say everything you think, no matter what the opinion of everyone else is. A public diary on the internet is using your right to free speech. A website about your beliefs and opinions is too.
Some may say that those websites are promoting eating disorders and encouraging people to develop them. However, I've said it before, I think that you can't develop any mental illness, like eating disorders, unless you've got a predisposition to it. Because the logic of a "sick" mind won't be logic to a "healthy" one. Therefore I don't believe that pro-eating disorders websites "create" more anorexia/bulimia/whatever. And if someone's decided to find tricks to stick with their diet from hell, website or not, they're gonna find it somewhere. Like, in their own head. Most of the time, those websites seem to be a way for their creator and their visitors to occupy themselves and stick to their plan. Not a way to tell the world that eating disorders are the key to ultimate happiness.
However, I do not believe that eating disorders are a lifestyle, as so many girls I've read would like to think. It is a sickness, a dangerous one and it can lead to death. Still, people have their own decisions to make, and as I've read somewhere - some people decide to recover from their eating disorder. Some don't. And the websites are for them.
This leading to the question : "should everyone be forced to recover ?" Not taking into consideration the fact that if someone doesn't wanna recover, nobody can make them - would it be right to force them ?
There, I have to say no.
They might be walking towards their own death, consciously or not, but I don't think anybody but yourself should be allowed to make decisions about the way you lead your life. I know I've said it's not a lifestyle - but if they want their eating disorder, it might be hard and sad to watch them go along with it, but it's all you should be allowed to do. See below - it wasn't related at all at the time I wrote it, but it still can be applied to the current matter : You have the right to screw up your own life if this is what you want.
So yeah. This might make me a sicko, but I support pro-eating disorders websites.
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