- Who should get the largest share of criticism society or individuals?
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False premise. There are plenty of examples of vice versa. It’s class prejudice. A super hot prostitute is treated much worse than an ugly oligarch. This is because of trickle down mechanics, the oligarchs treat everyone and the world like shit, establishing a heirarchy based on who you get to treat like shit to establish you place in it.
Poor treatment of attractive sex worker compared to unattractive oligarch is not based on appearance. Your example doesn’t help solve the problem of lookism.
The wealthy surround themselves with beautiful people, get blood transfusions from young people, get cosmetic surgery. In our stories, good characters are usually portrayed as beautiful or handsome and often young. Successful characters, whether good or evil, are often beautiful or handsome. Regular-looking folks more often appear as side characters or comedic characters instead.
this view is encouraged by the fashion, skincare and cosmetics industries (not that there’s anything wrong with fashion, skincare, or cosmetics per se).
So we are all being conditioned to worship or favor beauty and youth.
I agree on the conditioning aspect but is there not some biological imperative as well? Generally attractive traits deemed desirable from an evolutionary perspective
What we view as attractive is socially constructed and varies over time and place. See e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0738081X23000251
Youth and health are probably a proxy for fertility, so that would be related to physical attraction, but why should that affect how we treat people? That’s not a reason to favor the young or to disfavor the old. Not only that, but community care of children meant everyone had a role in the greater sense of “fertility”.
