Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Money vs. Good looks Message-ID: <991@peora.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-May-85 22:03:21 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.991 Posted: Tue May 28 22:03:21 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 30-May-85 04:11:25 EDT References: <270@looking.UUCP> <3850010@csd2.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 36 >If this were so, men should be attracted to women who are as fat as >possible, shouldn't they? No... fat people die from heart disease before the children have fully grown and become independent. (One could get into some really heated arguments over complicated genetic issues, here too! Like, I could argue 1) Fat people are fat because their parents thought fat children were cute. 2) Philosophies of cuteness are inherited. 3) Fat people will therefore produce fat children. Now, my initial statement was that people who are overweight tend to die earlier from heart disease, so people who produce fat children produce children who are more likely to die from heart disease. So fat people should (according to the way back there original hypothesis) be less attractive. But, all the above is just a hypothetical argument in itself! I am not at all sure I believe that; my own theories of why "fat" people are more fre- quently thought of as not attractive are very much more complicated than that, and I have already written about 5 articles in here defending my previously posted arguments, and am very tired.* See? This is philosophy that is not inbred; this is a love of knowledge not narcisissistic. -- Full-Name: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "V'q engure or n puvgva, jerfgyrq va n frrq bhgjbea, Naq urne byq Rora, jvaqvat n fvyrag ubea."