Ironically, following our discussion in class today about Asian people being really smart, I got home and upon mentioning China to my brother's friend got the response that he hated China and all its people because they are ugly. However, this is unimportant. More importantly, my brother argued that white people are just as ugly. His friend retorted that most people would look better if they lost weight, to which my brother replied that even then a lot of people would be ugly. I wondered what defined ugly or beautiful and how decided that sort of thing. I concluded that beauty is in the eye of the collective beholders, because anyone who can publish anything or be a part of the media has greater control over people's perception of beauty than they do because of mob mentality. For this reason I doubt free will, but at the same time assert that society is controlled by itself, so if one chooses to defy society and its definitions, then one has become in control of it to some extent, because they can change the opinions of their peers with peer pressure.
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