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Although David Hume has many ideas that I do not agree with, there are two that play into my feelings on the moral issue that I feel passionate about. Hume puts both reason and sentiment into his explanation of morality. A sentiment in Hume’s words is “an immediate feeling and finer internal sense” (Hume page 74). Using my moral belief that it is wrong to push a supposed body image onto people, my immediate feeling is one of disagreement with the media’s ideas of “perfect.” I feel as if it is not their responsibility to decide what people should look like. People need to identify with themselves in order to develop the sense of self image.

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