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Perhaps a more appropriate title for this thread may have been "the inverse relationship between looks and other attributes".
This has gone off on a tangent of what character actually is. It is not a currency to be doled out or traded to those one deems worthy. Character is the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of someone---their moral and ethical quality.
Ohhh, I know some of you hate those words. Relativism, right? There is no such thing as 'morals' or 'ethics'; it's all subject to the parties concerned and thier circumstances. Which is another way of saying anything is justifiable depending on the subjective position of the party in question.
What I meant in my original post was that I often see diminishing returns in regards to other attributes--ones I would associate with good character--in women who are higher up on the looks scale. I think the reasons are obvious.
Of course their are 9.5's with sterling character and of course their are 2's with rotten character.
Think of it this way: If you took a random sample of 100 HB9's and 100 HB6's (let's say American women for congruity), you are much more likely to find desirable personality attrubutes (e.g. good character) in the 6 group than you are in the 9 group; just by probablity. There will certainly be some outliers, but our culture lavishes the beauties. When you have been getting unsolicited attention your whole life, why would you find it necessary to alter your behavior?
In other countries I dont know. It think it's probably a totally different story. But I live in America, so that is my sample base.
This has gone off on a tangent of what character actually is. It is not a currency to be doled out or traded to those one deems worthy. Character is the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of someone---their moral and ethical quality.
Ohhh, I know some of you hate those words. Relativism, right? There is no such thing as 'morals' or 'ethics'; it's all subject to the parties concerned and thier circumstances. Which is another way of saying anything is justifiable depending on the subjective position of the party in question.
What I meant in my original post was that I often see diminishing returns in regards to other attributes--ones I would associate with good character--in women who are higher up on the looks scale. I think the reasons are obvious.
Of course their are 9.5's with sterling character and of course their are 2's with rotten character.
Think of it this way: If you took a random sample of 100 HB9's and 100 HB6's (let's say American women for congruity), you are much more likely to find desirable personality attrubutes (e.g. good character) in the 6 group than you are in the 9 group; just by probablity. There will certainly be some outliers, but our culture lavishes the beauties. When you have been getting unsolicited attention your whole life, why would you find it necessary to alter your behavior?
In other countries I dont know. It think it's probably a totally different story. But I live in America, so that is my sample base.