Nachtwolf

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/newrepl...eply&p=1443367

No. Beauty and form are the physical expressions of fertility:

Women with a relatively low waist-to-hip ratio and large breasts had about 30 per cent higher levels of the female reproductive hormone estradiol than women with other combinations of body shapes, found Grazyna Jasienska, at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and colleagues.

Two of the team, Peter Ellison and Susan Lipson at Harvard University in the US, have previously shown that higher levels of estradiol are indeed related to higher fertility in women trying to get pregnant.

"If there are 30 per cent higher levels, it means they are roughly three times more likely to get pregnant," Jasienska, a human biologist, told New Scientist.

(This is posted at http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/...opic.php?t=204
along with several other interesting articles on a similar vein.)


First of all, it is impossible to answer this without using "moral grounds," because questions on right and wrong are by definition moral questions.

Secondly, to answer this moral question, we have to know what right and wrong are. That may seem pedantic, but at its root it is profound. Poeople often rush into discussions of "shoulds" and "deserves" without having the slightest foundation for what these words even mean, and the entire discussion ends up being utterly meaningless.

Rather than give an answer to the question, then, which is extremely complicated and beyond the scope of this thread, I can only suggest a read through this site:

http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/philosophy.htm


--Mark