On the Question of Looks.

In the matter of being attracted to members of the opposite sex – or even human beings generally, come to that – we have to consider the question:

Do looks matter?

No of course they don’t, I hear you say. Looks are just the surface impression. Using looks as a basis for attraction is shallow.

OK, I take the point. But look at it this way:

We humans go through life as material beings living in a material world enclosed within a material universe. And the first port of call when assessing the desirability of anything material is what it looks like, be it a flower, a Siamese cat, a spider’s web on a misty morning, or a slim young woman with a perfect arrangement of facial characteristics, dark hair, hazel eyes, and a faint hint of Middle Eastern provenance in her skin tone.

So of course looks matter. They do.

(And I only made this post because I was in the mood for saying something contentious and constructing an argument which might readily be seen by some as fallacious. It isn’t intended to rival the homilies of Khalil Gibran or anything.)