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>>GavCo+(OP)
They left in wonky nose, crooked mouth, and stick out teeth, but took out the reference to fat? That's wild.

The fat is arguably the only fixable thing, or at least the cheapest. You can't "just stop eating so much" and fix a wonky nose or stick out teeth.

Calories aren't magic and hard to fathom.

Normalizing being overweight is going to kill a lot of people early.

>>PostOn+RA1
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849710 and marked it off topic.

>>dang+vh4
Is it off topic? It's a direct commentary on the precise changes being made? What constitutes off topic in this case?

I mean... it's weird that they (the publishers, or possibly the estate) think it's okay to retroactively edit these books at all, but the specific edits they have made make it all the more bizarre.

It's really very strange to take a view that weight is sacred, but teeth, noses, and other aspects of general appearance are not.

>>PostOn+3a7
This type of moderation is always a response to the subthread (i.e. root comment plus all descendants), not the root comment alone.

>>dang+Zo9
Thanks for explaining; that makes sense, it did descend into a bit of a culture war and become detached from the point.