The Paradox of Beauty

In the name of hyper-individualism, there's a development of a sort of sameness that then all individuals are supposed to succumb to. The most poignant answer I got was from a cosmetic surgery researcher who had herself undergone the jawline surgery where she got her jaw broken and reshaped to be more feminine. She said, ultimately, you don't get to draw the line. Nature draws the line. And so it is kind of egoistic to think that we even get to make that determination.

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