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12:20:2002 Entry: "Ann : Why Plastic Surgery Will Actually Make The Human Species Uglier"

Why Plastic Surgery Will Actually Make The Human Species Uglier

While mentally flogging a dead horse in my recent journal subjects as I took my dog out to poop, I had this thought. If we continue to have cosmetic surgery as a society, we will in fact get uglier. How? If no one had plastic surgery, beautiful people will continue to breed with beautiful people, naturally increasing the beautiful population. Rich, old, homely men will still get young, beautiful, gold digging women who will temper their sub-par aesthetic genes with model good looks. Natural selection will select beauty, naturally. Get plastic surgery involved, and no one will know who is naturally comely, or who payed for their high cheekbones. Two people compelled toward eachother via an atavistic need to breed with the attractive of the species could actually be creating very ugly offspring, unbeknownst to eachother. It's almost a way of ensuring plastic surgeons stay in business from generation to generation.

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Interesting theory. All though I hope Anne didn't choose me for breeding purposes only, as I think we will both be pretty disappointed ;) I choose to believe people choose their partner because of personality aspects and not how they look, otherwise we will all be pretty disappointed and unhappy with our better half when we get old ;)

Posted by Nico @ 08:06:2002:07:13 PM CST

In a utopian situation, we would all choose everyone for their personality rather than their looks, however even I admit that I would not have chosen to be with Stan if he weighed 300 lbs, shaved his head, had a tiny upturned red nose, red beard, one eyebrow and smelled bad. However, if I was looking for my ideal mr. fantasy based on looks ONLY, I'd still be looking. So we all tend to make some concessions, however I don't think any of us can admit that we're so noble that we're above any sort of lookism when it comes to a mate. I know I'm not. Stan's blond, short (I like short guys...I can look them in the eye when they irk me), blue eyed, nice body, nice skin, big nose (I like big noses too, probably 'cause I can relate), so yeah, those are desirable physical features for me. But personality is #1, as looks do fade. But by the same token, if someone's physiognomy is going to make you vomit by being in the same room with them, you're not exactly well-matched for eachother. But (lotsa buts...) someone with a rancid personality with good looks can be equally revolting. So it's a mix.

Posted by Ann @ 08:06:2002:07:48 PM CST

Yes, I agree. One probably wouldn't fall in love with someone one thought was "ugly". Maybe because one wouldn't bother to get to know them and see their personality. However, I think any person has something beautiful about them, none of us is perfect, there's something less beautiful on all of us, like we eat our nails and when we're done with that we continue on our fingers, uhum..

Posted by Nico @ 08:07:2002:08:59 AM CST

Great post, Ann! Good thing people who breed for INTELLIGENCE cannot get that surgically modified - then we'd really be messed up! A world full of ugly stupid people! Heh.

Seriously though: Met Holger on the 'Net before HISPEED and loved him before I ever saw him :) Go me!

Hey, he can be a pain in the you-know-what sometimes, but who isn't? So, all in all, I am still pretty sure I lucked out and I will never be under a KNIFE to modify anything about me! Under a piercing or tattoo needle - sure - but anesthesia (often more dangerous than the surgery) to have something different about me? Odds are: No.

Again: excellent post - one of the best I've read in a (painfully) long time. Aside from Ezrael's - he's an EXCELLENT writer.

So - back to your regularly scheduled schedule.

Posted by Kimberly @ 08:07:2002:11:27 AM CST

Unfortunately, I know a great many intelligent people who choose not to procreate because of environmental, ecological, economic reasons, for the greater good and all that.

However, that leaves the otherly abled to be creating the people who will continue our society! How will that affect society? Will it become less technologically driven and back to a more physical (and apparently uglier) reality?

I figure I'm having kids just to even out the gene pool. ;)

Posted by Suzanne @ 08:07:2002:08:10 PM CST

I kind of count myself in that first group of people, Suzanne (hope that doesn't sound too egotistical of me to say that), so on behalf of Stan and I, thank you! :-D

Posted by Ann @ 08:08:2002:02:35 PM CST

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