I know this sounds like a "woke"-esc post but hear me out.
There's a growing belief in certain sub-cultures that all people are beautiful. I am aware that the media have a strong grip over beauty standards, calling everyone beautiful, in my opinion only devalues beauty as concept.
In my mind, in order for a quality to exist there must be an antithesis of that quality:
-Tall and short
-Smart and dumb
-Beautiful and ugly
Without light we cannot have darkness and without the ugly we cannot have the beautiful.
Of course there is also the Aristotelian argument of opposites that in which, the beautiful would have 2 opposites. The ugly and the not beautiful, although they're very similar they're not quite the same.
The not beautiful is not necessarily ugly by nature it just does not have any beauty within it. Even more confusingly something ugly can have beauty in it, but in it's totality it would still appear as ugly.
Personally I don't believe anything that has even the smallest bit of beauty should be considered beautiful, it must be beautiful in it's totality. But I do recognise it as a counter argument.
