>>>>This type of symbolic pablum over substance makes the participant feel better about their moral superiority while doing zero to alleviate the causes nor symptoms of the problem.
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>>>You might be right.
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>>>I would suspect if you are right, that you know this from experience.
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>>>So when is the last to you willingly went several days without food, only to discover it was all for naught?
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>>There was a time in college when I went for 2 days on a liquid diet. Nothing good came from that, but it sure was fun at the time.
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>>I actually did participate in a fast in college. The week before Thanksgiving the RA in our dorm set it up to raise awareness about hunger. There was a certain smugness coming from the group that I noticed and do not like.
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>Then perhaps you should try fasting without a group?
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>>I prefer volunteering and charitable giving to phony help through osmosis.
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>Osmosis?
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>Look.
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>Think about this.
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>If you're honestly enlightened enough that fasting won't help you grow any farther, then surely you can recognize that the mainstream American lifestyle is not that enlightened, and that before we would expect that to change, the enlightened would have to lead by example.
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>Make sense?

I do not buy the premise. I do not believe that you are more enlightened than the average American. I believe you think you are and like many others you wish to impose you belief system on the rest. I find your suggestion to be superficial and meant to make the participant feel good while doing nothing to alleviate the the problem. I do not subscribe to the concept of enlightenment, I prefer practicality.