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So what could go wrong? One service, according to the article, offers an online catalog of 100 donors in a database searchable by race, height, eye color, blood type and education. Profiles feature snapshots of donors taken when they were children to better visualize babies their eggs might produce.
I mean, what could go wrong in a world full of Jessica Simpsons?
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Hm. Sounds like there's a lot of cash to be gotten by playing on the ignorance of desperate people. How surprising is that?
Posted on March 16, 2006 1:05 PM
Falling to the lures of aesthics does not mean that one will find true happiness. What couples are seeking is something much deeper than the physical package. Until that is acknowledged and dealt with, true happiness will not be found.
Shalom
Posted on March 17, 2006 8:12 AM
It's a chimera, this idea that you can get anything that will make you "happy." Being satisfied with life isn't a matter of being happy all the time (ever see the Ren and Stimpy cartoon on the subject?)
Too many people have this idea that being "beautiful" is a key to doing well in life. They forget the maxim "beauty is only skin deep, but UGLY goes down to the bone." Oh well...
Posted on March 17, 2006 9:20 AM
Speaking for the easy target of soulless aesthetics (as a practicing artist who has drawn and painted hundreds of both conventionally "attractive" as well as rivetingly "eccentric" bodies and faces), I have to say there are in this world, mostly people whose looks are "good" enough to please someone of either similar or slightly "better" looks. The more "ugly" can often "compensate" for the misfortunes of genetics or perhaps accident, acne, etc. by waving lots of cash, an artful pen or phrase, or other skills and assets to attract a mate. This database, of course, dispenses with the time-and money-consuming "work" of wooing a mate; in a capitalist society, it is not just the "pursuit of happiness" one can pay for, but the American Dream of acquired status via beauty, brains or talent.
Beauty is not to be always scorned. I, for one, would find this a less enjoyable existence were it not for ravishing or powerful physiques, of both genders. Sports played by out-of-shape slackers or desk jockeys would not be nearly as compelling (but perhaps once in a while a pleasant satire).
Posted on April 2, 2006 5:15 PM