_The Good Humor Man_ by Andrew Fox has an eye-catching cover and a great idea, but somewhere between idea and execution of said idea, things go terribly wrong...the dialogue is awkward, stereotypes abound and the whole thing reads rather stiff...but the IDEA behind it is very intriguing and also very scary...
In the future what IF it WERE illegal to eat fatty foods and anorexia were glorified the way chastity is among the abstinence crowd?
As someone who struggles with guilt whenever I eat something junky and who often longs to be lighter, I wonder sometimes (and only sometimes): WOULD we be better off living in a society that decided it was about time to start imposing fines and jail time for eating crap that in turn makes us crappy? WOULD it be easier to lose weight if there were some kind of punishment involved for NOT losing it?
I find the idea of being denied the very thing I want oddly appealing...
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