WrathOfOlives
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The common logic is to hate on women for caring about looks so much, yet you should be thankful for shallowness.
The only reason humans are alive is because we are shallow and the halo/failo effect is so powerful.
Take babies for example, they provide absolutely nothing of use to the parents, they just consume time resources and peace of mind - their primary way of communicating is screaming/crying to annoy people. Yet despite all that, we feel a compulsion to help and give resources to them expecting nothing in return.
Why? because babies look cute. That's it.
Evolution probably experimented with mammals producing non-cute looking babies, and those genes obviously didn't make it by definition.
This halo effect is so powerful it extends cross-species and against self interest.
Your first thought at looking at this Lion cub is how cute it is, despite it literally being a natural predator of humans. That's how much we like the look of babies.
Or if that's too theoretical to accept, imagine if your ancestors struggling to survive in hunter gatherer times opted to breed with the less healthy/physically robust men/women, it would likely cause their geneset to die out within a few generations due to not being able to survive the harsh environment.
If these cave women opted for the oofy doofy caveman that had a "nice personality" and not the physically robust caveman, you wouldn't exist.
In short, you should empathize with shallowness, it actually comes from an extremely good and useful place.
The only reason humans are alive is because we are shallow and the halo/failo effect is so powerful.
Take babies for example, they provide absolutely nothing of use to the parents, they just consume time resources and peace of mind - their primary way of communicating is screaming/crying to annoy people. Yet despite all that, we feel a compulsion to help and give resources to them expecting nothing in return.
Why? because babies look cute. That's it.
Evolution probably experimented with mammals producing non-cute looking babies, and those genes obviously didn't make it by definition.
This halo effect is so powerful it extends cross-species and against self interest.
Your first thought at looking at this Lion cub is how cute it is, despite it literally being a natural predator of humans. That's how much we like the look of babies.
Or if that's too theoretical to accept, imagine if your ancestors struggling to survive in hunter gatherer times opted to breed with the less healthy/physically robust men/women, it would likely cause their geneset to die out within a few generations due to not being able to survive the harsh environment.
If these cave women opted for the oofy doofy caveman that had a "nice personality" and not the physically robust caveman, you wouldn't exist.
In short, you should empathize with shallowness, it actually comes from an extremely good and useful place.
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