It is becoming more and more popular to promote the idea everyone is beautiful as they are, despite weight or other conditions affecting physical appearance.
This movement is out to destroy the concept of beauty and to make people feel guilty for what we instinctively know to be true.
There are standards for beauty.
Appearance has little to do with virtue, in fact there is probably a negative correlation. But there is nothing wrong with recognizing and appreciating beauty.
Just like we can appreciate a nice painting or a nice piece of music, you can also appreciate someone’s appearance.
Some work goes into maintaining beauty, but a lot of it is genetics, and therefore beyond control. Being good-looking does not make you a good person. Being good looking does not make you virtuous. We should evaluate it as such.
But we don’t need to hide under a rock or try to deceive ourselves about the nature of beauty. We do not need to shame companies or individuals for appreciating beauty, or for using beautiful people in advertisements.
We shouldn’t project virtue on beautiful people, but we also shouldn’t try to bend reality to make up the inferior conditions of our own appearances.
What you find if you encounter the people that are most out to destroy the concept of beauty is that they are the ones who place the most importance on it. They are the ones who think that beautiful people are good people, so they need to bend reality to say that everyone is beautiful, or ugly is beautiful, in an attempt to put themselves on the pedestal of unearned virtue that belongs to symmetric tall skinny people today.
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