Freedom is a Western political concept that says the individual can do as he or she chooses in so far as it is not proscribed by democratically made law or injuriously infringes on the freedom or rights of another individual.
Freedom, when fully realized, has three core components: Personal freedom - the freedom to do as you choose as far as you can. Civic freedom - the ability to participate in politics and the creation of laws. Sovereignal freedom - the ability to act without interference, regardless of how others want you to. This can be applied to individuals in a limited way, but is a concept that is more easily explained as a country able to rule itself without outside interference.
Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want, however you want, whenever you want without regard to anybody or anything. That is called licentiousness.
Shallowness pervades humanity. We emphasize thin in the West, which anorexia is an indicator of. China, on the other hand, emphasizes height, so many Chinese are undergoing limb lengthening surgery. Government employment often requires a specific height minimum.
A good appearance is a biological advantange, whether you're human or another animal. It's not just pure cultural shallowness.
I must agree that many people in America are unhealthily obsessed with looks, especially when many shouldn't have that level of obsession over their flaws. I disagree that plastic surgery is a major negative example of this, but instead propose anorexia is. I think plastic surgery gets a bad reputation because you see so many already attractive people getting it and it appears to be quite vain. You often don't see the people who have some embarrassing trait fix and it positively impacts their lives, you don't see those cases as much.
As for someone not looking human - isn't that just more shallowness on the part of people?
I'm glad you pointed this out, because I neglected to explain it somewhere.
A "good" appearance has its cultural subjectivity, but also has an objective portion of symmetry and proportion that exists regardless of culture. Attractive people typically have many proportionate and symmetrical features which are an indicator of genetic quality.
So, being attractive has some biological merit, and is not simply a social perception (but if you have the genes that your culture likes, you're lucky). I say this only concerning appearance and no other factors, of course.
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Freedom, when fully realized, has three core components:
Personal freedom - the freedom to do as you choose as far as you can.
Civic freedom - the ability to participate in politics and the creation of laws.
Sovereignal freedom - the ability to act without interference, regardless of how others want you to. This can be applied to individuals in a limited way, but is a concept that is more easily explained as a country able to rule itself without outside interference.
Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want, however you want, whenever you want without regard to anybody or anything. That is called licentiousness.
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A good appearance is a biological advantange, whether you're human or another animal. It's not just pure cultural shallowness.
I must agree that many people in America are unhealthily obsessed with looks, especially when many shouldn't have that level of obsession over their flaws. I disagree that plastic surgery is a major negative example of this, but instead propose anorexia is. I think plastic surgery gets a bad reputation because you see so many already attractive people getting it and it appears to be quite vain. You often don't see the people who have some embarrassing trait fix and it positively impacts their lives, you don't see those cases as much.
As for someone not looking human - isn't that just more shallowness on the part of people?
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A "good" appearance has its cultural subjectivity, but also has an objective portion of symmetry and proportion that exists regardless of culture. Attractive people typically have many proportionate and symmetrical features which are an indicator of genetic quality.
So, being attractive has some biological merit, and is not simply a social perception (but if you have the genes that your culture likes, you're lucky). I say this only concerning appearance and no other factors, of course.
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