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Re:Harrison Bergeron (1961) by pjc50 on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:48AM (#32995979)
What constitutes "ability" and "beauty", and what is acceptable/permitted to idolize, is extremely culturally specific. And the story explores a world with a very different view of those.
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Re:Harrison Bergeron (1961) by Animats on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:51PM (#32998710)
No, as we learned when morphing started to work, beauty is average. If you average a large number of faces, you get one most humans think is beautiful.[1] Non-beauty seems to be a defect-sensing system.

[1] https://petapixel.com/2013/05/28/what-averaged-face-photogra...

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