<p>Do you do more for people, and treat them more kindly, if you consider them physically attractive?</p>
<p>I’d say yes, in all honesty.</p>
<p>To be honest, yes. Whenever I see someone handsome I try my hardest to something nice for them, and try to get their attention. One time at the mall, I saw this one guy, pretty handsome, so I opened the door for him, asked him if he needed any help etc. It’s a bad thing to admit, but it’s true…</p>
<p>Hello, I am CC’s expert attractiveness analyst/representative. Attractive people generally receive better treatment. Just a fact of life.</p>
<p>I will say that I actually consciously try not to. However if someone random, but attractive, walked up to me and tried to talk to me, I’d be more likely to talk to them than if some random person walked up to me.</p>
<p>I also definitely see it at school; I think that teachers tend to favor girls/guys who are “cute.”</p>
<p>I’m guilty of this ;(. </p>
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<p>I suppose one does more for those who are more physically attractive in the hopes of reciprocal “kindness.” The end-game is always going to be you, yourself. We are all in violation of Kant’s second categorical imperative. We aren’t kind just to be kind; there’s something else involved, and for us hormone-addled teenagers … I don’t think that this euphemism requires further explication ;).</p>
<p>It’s unfortunate. But it’s true…</p>
<p>Unfortunately, yes. It’s only natural. And it’s more instinct than a thought-out process. I consciously try not to by treating them the same as someone I don’t find attractive, but it still happens.</p>
<p>Yes, unfortunately.</p>
<p>jimbo why are you asking this?</p>
<p>i think so. i would more easily agree to ‘pay more attention to them’, then treat them more kindly though. well if someone is <em>really</em> attractive i might find being around them uncomfortable. so i don’t really think the attention i give someone is strictly increasing for perceived attractiveness.</p>
<p>Not really. I like being nice to everyone, unless they annoy me. There are certain people that I’m nicer to because they aren’t attractive and don’t have many friends. But if some draw-dropping person started being nice to me, well of course I would be inclined to be nice to them.</p>
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<p>Your use of “instinct” is interesting because it puts this discussion in an evolutionary framework. Dawkins would argue that we show “altruism” to others so perhaps they’ll reciprocate the “altruism” later.</p>
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<p>Haha me too :p.</p>
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<p>You mean jaw-dropping or drop-dead (attractive) right?</p>
<p>Omg. Face palm. Freaking autocorrect. <em>Jaw-dropping</em></p>
<p>That’s kind of what was running though my mind when I wrote that. I might be going out on a limb here, but do you think we do it out of reciprocal altruism? Without consciously desiring it, do we all want those who are attractive to erm, “show altruism” back" for reproductive purposes? I mean, aside from just plainly wanting to get into somebody’s pants, is that what leads us to act kindly towards attractive people without having a conscious motive?</p>
<p>There was this book series that discussed this: The Uglies Trilogy. (I think that’s the name of it, at least.) Apparently we’re evolutionarily programmed to “react” when we see a pretty face. There’s some subconscious reaction having to do with good genes, provoked by a person that, on the outside, appears the epitome of good health and mothering/fathering.</p>
<p>The Uglies trilogy was sort of about this, but more about the power of the individual/the government, etc.</p>
<p>Anyway, yeah I gotta admit that I’m nicer to more attractive people. Whoops, I’m a human.</p>
<p>Well, Freud would say the motivating factor in niceness is… sex, which would depend on sexual appeal. Not saying Freud’s right but it sure seems like it.</p>
<p>If all other factors were the same, would you rather date an attractive person or an unattractive one? By the same token, would you rather talk to someone more or less attractive? I don’t think it’s something to be ashamed of, either. One’s first impressions of someone else are hugely influenced by physical appearance, simply because that’s the most easily-observable feature of a person at first meeting.</p>
<p>I actually don’t, and I’m being serious. I treat everyone the same. Maybe is because there is no one attractive at my school, lol.</p>
<p>So you’re saying if a hunk of a man (or smokin hot girl) asked you to do something, sold you something, gave you something, or had a conversation with you it would have no more importance than all of that with a person who’s face looks like mashed squash?</p>