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** Sorry to post this as a comment, but it wont let me post it as a new post.

What really stuck with in my mind from our discussion on Wednesday is the part where we talked about beauty. Beauty is such an abstract term. What is beauty and who is to decide that?

One of the classes I took last year was Contemporary Physics. A class I will never forget, and will always remind me that my decision of going to a liberal arts college was the right one. The class talked about relativity and it also connects with the entanglement reading of Barad and Bohr's theory of uncertainty. In the physics class we had the example of being on a train and watching the cart in front move. To you, the cart in front is the one that's moving not yours, and to the people in the cart in front, your cart is the one that's moving and theirs is rather stationary. Another example was being in the car on a road with trees on the side; it looks to the person in the car that he trees are moving past them, and to a person on the street, the car is the one that's moving. It's all relative. It all depends on who's point of view we're taking into account.

Beauty is relative. We, human beings, are often superficial when it comes to our judgments on different people we encounter. We more often than not make a quick judgement depending on the appearance of the person, their facial expression, the way they dress and the sometimes even the way they walk. We forget to count what's inside the person, their thoughts, their history and their personalities. This topic was discussed in terms of the ugliness of the creature that Vector managed to create. This hideous creature that was rejected by the people of the village because they were afraid of him, of his appearance. The creature longs to be accepted and to be "beautiful" as they people he encounters. He comes to the acknowledgment of his lack of beauty after he had seen people's reaction and his reflection in the water. Beauty could be either a bliss or a curse, I think. Moreover, it is pretty unfair to declare that one person is beautiful depending only on their appearance, and the creature felt out of place as a result of peoples' reactions when encountering him, leading to his wishes of a changed appearance, or for vector to create a mate for him, so he can be accepted.. for his mate, he would look beautiful, he would be seen for who he is from the inside.

It just got me wondering how our world is filled with injustice, it's almost part of our instincts o be unjust to one thing/person.. It's a dream in fact to have a fair world, with no prejudices. But we try and always hope to get better and more fair with one another.. This reminds me of the cosmic surgery and how one of the reasons it was invented is to help those with "not so beautiful" appearances to feel more accepted, more "beautiful" in the eyes of the unjust world. Human nature is quite interesting, how we work so hard on something trying to fix it, where all we need to do is simply be accepting.