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I completely agree with people who say that inner beauty is more important than outer beauty.
That should go without saying.
With the advent of technology, it will be increasingly painless, safe, and cheap to get cosmetic surgery. It will only get better.
Beauty on the inside is much more difficult for surgery to improve. Even with today's advanced technology, it's extremely difficult to artificially increase muscle mass and efficiency and improve/alter bone structure... and we can forget about artificially increasing brain power.
Quote from KittyTeea
Well that's pretty much what I meant in my previous post.
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No way. I don't believe it.
I think that you must have stopped reading after the first sentence of my post.
I didn't mention personality, confidence, or anything else you associated with "inner beauty".
I was using my own troll-blooded interpretation of inner beauty. Most people would reasonably assume I was being facetious. I have
never heard of anyone else associate muscle and bone to be "inner beauty" in place of "personality", intelligence, and all that other feel good stuff.
Kudos to you if you're just trolling me though.
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As for surgeries I think there's still a long way to go untill everyone will afford such expensive luxury plus is still very riscky.
In all seriousness, I was being half-serious. Surgery IS becoming safer, cheaper, and more effective every year. As for it being an expensive luxury, well, most people with talent and strong work ethic can afford middle-class luxuries like cosmetic surgery. It doesn't cost more than an average American family sedan.
It's a factor that I think
should increasingly factor into peoples' assessment of the value of physical beauty over non-physical advantages.
If I were to assign monetary values to different personal qualities, I'd have to rank physical beauty fairly lowly...
Eg. a healthy lifestyle (good nutrition and exercise) vs some physical beauty.
Lack of physical beauty (face) can be corrected by cosmetics and surgery. One time fixes. (Exception made for height, which is difficult to fix regardless of how much money we have.)
An unhealthy lifestyle can lead to... obesity, heart problems, etc... which cost significantly more to fix, and aren't one-time deals. Liposuction is a temporary fix, but don't guarantee a change in unhealthy eating habits.
Granted, there are cases where people can be addicted to cosmetic surgery, but in those cases, there are problems aside from physical beauty. The problems include lack of confidence and possibly some more severe mental/social deficiencies.
When I think about it logically, not lustfully and irrationally, intelligence/mental alacrity provides the greatest obvious value. It actually generates greater revenue over time than physical beauty, which loses value. It's a materialistic way to think of it though, and it's much more difficult to gauge the value of other qualities, like loyalty (the value of "risk" is tougher to assess).