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Should we treat some aspects of appearence as disabilities thus forbidding discrimination on these characteris

Ralph Nader long ago suggested that the people most discriminated against in society are those who are the least attractive. Scientific studies have suggested that we all haev an innate bias towards more attractive individuals. "Those individuals who depart so significantly from the most commonly held notions of beauty that they incur employment discrimination are poorly treated in such diverse contexts as employment, criminal sentencing, and apartment renting. "

SHOULD WE TREAT ASPECTS OF APPEARENCE AS DISABILITIES THUS FORBIDDING DiSCRIMINATION. IF SO, WHAT CHARACTERISTICS AND HOW DO YOU DEFINE THEM?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I believe it to be true. Just look at how many parents think their kids are beautiful while others wonder what pound they picked them out at. It is too much of a judgement call to be legislated.

  • 1 decade ago

    Most media outlets would never touch on this subject out of fear of being viewed as superficial, but it's obvious to anyone that people are obsessed with appearance and, even if it's not intentional, do favor the individuals they find more attractive. All you have to do is watch that awful Extreme Makeover show one time to get an idea of how fixated everyone is on being attractive.

    However, I would not go so far as to classify unattractiveness as a disability. If you take that route, it's fair to say that abrasive personality, poor personal hygiene and bad fashion sense could also qualify as a disability. Obviously, it's unfair that some people are more attractive than others. But it's also unfair to employers when every person they don't hire calls discrimination because of appearances. Claims of racial, religious, lifestyle and gender-related discrimination are already getting out of hand. Besides, if a potential employer thinks you're ugly, they're not going to say "I didn't hire you because you're ugly," they're going to come up with some other excuse. It isn't something that could hold water in court, even if there were laws against it.

    There are things about human nature that can't be changed. We are instinctively drawn to pretty people but are just as able to overcome that attraction if the pretty person in question turns out to be a jerk. You can't really tell people that they can't be attracted to or put off by someone's appearance because they can't really help it. You can only hope that most people are not so superficial that they base all of their decisions on that single factor.

  • doble
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    The ADA protects people who're gave the impression to have a incapacity notwithstanding in the event that they do no longer. So if a individual is taken care of as though there is a few thing approximately them that prevents them from working and quite there's no longer something - different than their visual allure - they might record tournament because of being discriminated against because of the fact they have been gave the impression to be disabled.

  • pbJ
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I don't think people who are more unattractive than others should be said to be "disabled" when they are perfectly capable of living a normal life and taking care of themselves.

    If people would just realize that on the inside we are all human and not focus so much on appearance there wouldn't be discrimination.

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  • EM
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Bringing a whole new measure of meaning to the insult "your face is a disability".

    Beauty is subjective. You can't label ugly because not everyone has the same kind of idea of what's ugly.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    One word is sufficient to answer this ridiculous question, and it is a vehement ....NO !!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    I'm gonna put some thought into this one.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What? im lost?

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