(August 16, 2014 at 10:58 am)Blackout Wrote: I'm not appealing to popularity, but to chemical reactions most people's brains have when confronted with a set of beauty.
So, you're appealing to their opinions? It's the same thing.
Quote:The fact 1% of people disagree doesn't erase the general rule of reactions people have when exposed to certain patterns of beauty. Let's make the analogy with moral values. Let's say 90% of people consider murder or child molesting wrong and 10% consider it right. Does that mean raping children or murdering can be a morally correct act? And if it's entirely subjective, why has it been made illegal in most countries?
Because the modern society today values conscious beings and sees the killing of conscious beings as morally unacceptable. The laws were different in the past. When a subjective set of moral values becomes acknowledged by the majority, it does not become objective.
Quote:By the way, a lot of men like overweight women on western societies, just not morbidly obese. The western beauty is related to health. Most people don't like overweight people because it's a sign of unhealthy behaviour. In those you mentioned states, being overweight is mostly a sign of wealth and beauty, just like in Europe it was once, but it faded away once countries developed themselves.
And this further proves my point that beauty is subjective, because it depends on the location, culture, and, in this example, the time.
