Physical Beauty Depends on How Much Effort You Put Into It

Yes Thrill, it was a pun, and I am totally thrilled at your response because it sparked up some interesting topics I have not thought about. For one, you mentioned how we all have subjective opinions about what is beauty. A person may find you to be handsome without any effort, or a person may find you handsome with much effort. In my opposition, I would like to argue against "any or no effort." Even though each person may have their own definition of beauty, each person would still have to put in some kind of effort, whether it's "little effort," or a "substantial amount" of effort. There is no person who puts in NO EFFORT at all, except for infants who cannot take care of themselves, or the sick and physically disabled, where someone else is putting in the effort for them. In this case, I am talking about the general adult population. From the most effort with clothes on, to the least effort with no clothes on, one still has to put in effort to sustain the body itself. For if there is no effort at all to even sustain the health of person's physical body, the body would not exist to be visually judged as having beauty or not. Secondly, you said that I appear to have faulty logic, so let me explain. My argument was that anybody can be beautiful with what they have been given, by using their physical features to either put in little to much effort to be perceived as having beauty. I was against any conformation to a standard beauty that falls out of what they have been given to meet other people's standard or opinion of beauty. For example, you said that an ectomorph no matter what effort cannot become a mesomorph. Sure, a person cannot be absolutely beautiful or handsome in the eyes of all the men and women because of differing opinions. However, we shouldn't try to conform or please someone else who may have a different opinion, but rather we should all work with what we have to be beautiful in our own skin. It is true, that in my first argument, I may be generally talking about a specific beauty standard, one that have covered the aspects of "big effort." What I would like to do now, is to cover the other aspect of "little effort." As my title says, beauty "depends on how much effort you put into it." The following argument is my case for those who put in little effort, and can also be beautiful. As you have said, everyone has their own opinion or standard of beauty. If one person doesn't agree that the person is beautiful, there is always going to be the opposite, someone who thinks the person is beautiful. Therefore, any person can become beautiful because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Second, to be even seen in the eye of the beholder, the person must exist before them to be judged as having beauty or not. Therefore, the person with "little effort," as I have mentioned before, would still require human effort to sustain the organs and functioning of a body to physically appear before the person, to be perceived as beautiful or not. An observable example may be this homeless man, Jim Wolf's make over: http://www.bbc.com... Jim may be handsome before his makeover in the eyes of some with little effort, while others may say he is handsome after his makeover with big effort, or some may say he is not handsome at all. Yet, there is bound to be at least one person who thinks he is handsome or having beauty that is pleasing to the eyes, and so he fits the fact that any person can have physical beauty. In both before and after, Jim still had to use either little or big effort in order to sustain the look with what he has, which means he is using at least some kind of effort but never no effort. Moreover, he is not trying to conform to what he doesn't have, say using plastic surgery for aesthetic reasons to achieve a certain look. He can have beauty using what he has by being satisfied with his own self. He can achieve his best look in his own skin, whether it is with little or much effort. Therefore, anyone has the ability to have physical beauty, depending on how little or big effort they put into themselves, but absolutely not "no effort" because that effort would still depend on the effort of someone else.