Comments on: Bulletin board supervisor faces charges for not deleting message calling girl ‘ugly’

By: wes

wes — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:36:52 +0000

nah, for the most part you can look at someone and tell if they’re ugly. just because there’s the phrase “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” doesn’t make it absolutely true

also, i think it was a joke

By: Da Kappa

Da Kappa — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:58:39 +0000

There is no barometer on beauty. As they say “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Who is to judge people as beautiful or ugly? You? Me? Society?

That’s like saying that the cup of McDonalds coffee is “hot”. To me it may taste lukewarm (while that old lady said that it burnt her mouth). At least in the case of coffee, society can regulate the temperature of the coffee and deem it too hot or not hot enough. While the notion sounds perposterous; how can society regulate beauty?

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:57:20 +0000

But if she IS in fact ugly, doesn’t that have any bearing on it? Or does the fact that it’s uncomplimentary trump the fact it may be true?

By: Zaciroth

Zaciroth — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:58:06 +0000

OH great its affected Japan too. Wont people grow up and let things slide.

By: Da Kappa

Da Kappa — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:07:31 +0000

Yeah in the “West” we have much more sane (tainted in Sarcasm BTW) lawsuits like the old lady suing McDonalds for coffee that was too hot for her.

By: madne0

madne0 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:31:41 +0000

I feel reassured in the fact that ridiculous court decisions are not a monopoly of the West.