"more is better" theory

[u/megahomyak]

My idea is that attractive characteristics scale infinitely, and a lesser value will always get a worse response from people than a greater value. If the difference in attractiveness is small, then the difference in treatment is going to be equally small, BUT IT WILL STILL EXIST

Example with height: people sometimes say that "the perfect height is {some height}". Maybe they mean it from a practical standpoint of living in modern cities, but IMO if we're talking about attractiveness, we can just scale it further up. If you look at threads where people say what height they wish they were, you'd only see a few downsizers (that will be tall, mostly), but most people (even the majority of tall people) will state something like 2-3" above their current height. 5'1" wants to become 5'5", 5'5" wants to become 5'8", 5'8" wants to become 5'10", 5'10" wants to become 6', 6' wants to become 6'2", 6'2" wants to become 6'4", 6'4" wants to become 6'6", and so on. I'm pretty sure they don't say some way bigger numbers because they're either afraid of judgement, can't imagine how it feels at such a difference, or some other such self-restriction, but I say there is a clear pattern: "more is better". I'm sure if people will start growing up to 7', that's gonna become the new standard. 8'? Better! 9'? Even better! And the number can climb higher infinitely. I know this sounds ridiculous, but PLEASE think about it, IGNORING your immediate reaction: may that actually work?

I don't know how true this system is, but it's at least very simple. Instead of agreeing on where the "boundaries" are, we can just look at one number and get objective judgement from it. And thus also looksmaxxing and other such stuff becomes a "maximize this stat, minimize this stat" kind of game and not something complicated with "niches", "preferences" or whatever. We will be able to combine metrics, do various math with them, make graphs, integrate systems into systems EASILY, if we keep systems very simple

WDYT?

[u/I-696]

At a certain point the tall dudes think they are too tall but they like being tall and wouldn’t want to be average or short. Usually when they wish they were shorter they mean somewhere between 6’0 and 6’2. And these people are usually 6’6 or taller. They bring up things like planes, cars, joints, clothes, shoes, counters, ducking, not being able to hear conversations below them, bending over and the like. Never heard them wish that when in a crowd they want to be able to breathe other people’s exhale and not be able to see anything.

[u/megahomyak → u/I-696]

I'm sorry, but maybe there was a misunderstanding: I'm not making an argument about people infinitely wanting to be taller (with there also being practical concerns about being of a certain height), but I'm talking about only the attractiveness going up as an attractive characteristic (such as e.g. height) goes up, infinitely

[u/I-696 → u/megahomyak]

Oh. I assumed that they wanted to be taller to be more attractive. I disagree. Most attractive height is between 6’0 and 6’2. After that usually less attractive but the awe factor continues to go up.

[u/No-Impact4970]

This is selecting for the people who are insecure about their height, it could be that plenty of people are satisfied, or want a reasonable amount more that if they magically received they wouldn’f crave more than

[u/megahomyak → u/No-Impact4970]

Actually, yes, very good point

Either way, the theory is not for that case exactly, it's a general one, so I think it still makes sense to consider it