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My personal theory has been that, because height has so much power influence (e.g., tall people are better paid[1], have better sexual prospects), boosting one'
by copperx 11y ago
My personal theory has been that, because height has so much power influence (e.g., tall people are better paid[1], have better sexual prospects), boosting one's potential power can be seen as dishonest.
[1]: http://www.timothy-judge.com/Height%20paper--JAP%20published.pdf http://www.timothy-judge.com/Height%20paper--JAP%20published...
- icebraining 11y agoUnless you're hiding them, I don't see how it's dishonest, particularly if not used with that particular intention. I'm sure clean-looking people are better regarded as well, does that make regular bathing dishonest?
- Dewie3 11y agoHah, dishonest. First of all it's no more dishonest than dressing up in other ways, with clothes or make up or what have you. Secondly if people are "impressed" or whatever by the stature you project what does it matter if it is "real" or not? Is the experience diminished because they didn't happen to be "born" with that stature? If we're going to rationalize things like that, you might as well go into why you think someone being born with genes that facilitate a certain height is more "impressive" than someone who isn't so tall, naturally. If you feel that someone being tall projects "power" or something, then what does it matter for that visceral moment that they were born with it or not? You're going to give a person a raise for projecting a certain stature, but get upset when a person happened to be not-so tall?