Can any research be found to validate the contention that those who spend time plucking out their gray hairs have more negative attitudes toward the elderly than those who shrug their shoulders about their gray hairs  Unless a person' s psychopathology leads him or her to overgeneralize, there is no necessary connection  Certainly it is reasonable to like the elderly yet dislike the idea of impaired eyesight and hearing  Furthermore, holding negative attitudes toward older people merely because they are old is immoral, according to nearly universally accepted ethical standards
But there is nothing immoral about disliking some concomitants of the aging process
To dislike the elderly is immoral, and to do so just because one dislikes some of the physical concomitants of growing old is unreasonable.