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Are ugly people oppressed?
We all know our culture puts a premium on good looks – does that mean that the ugly are oppressed? The faces and forms of oppression are many, but nearly all of them flow from injustice, the treatment of people otherwise than they deserve. It’s hard to say what exactly any one person deserves, of course, but in the modern world we tend to think that desert is somehow related to what people can control.
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"Better to be ugly and look at good looking people than be good looking and look at ugly people all day." -- Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad.