Beauty is rarity in this world. But where it exists, it is and will always be prized. They say that the media is changing the expectations of beauty. Indeed this is true to some degree with greater numbers of cases of anorexic and bulimic girls in the USA. But the other portion of it is nature. It is in our genes to desire beauty. The reason has always been evolutionary. It is found that people with more beautiful faces have better immunity. And it is posited that this is because a body with better immunity is able to sustain a more symmetrical face.

And in the case of women, there is an ideal hip to waist ratio that is said to be the most attractive and this again is evolutionary as only women with large enough hip can survive the rigours of childbirth including the part where the baby's head has to squeeze through the birth canal.

And in men, we desire dominance which by the way is evolutionarily ingrained in us. And the physical attribute that confers this is musculature or stature. And we see this dimorphism between the "hunter" and "gatherer" when we look at heights and builds between women and men. For most men, we are obsessed with the killer six-packs and bulging biceps for the sake of attracting the fairer sex.

But how many of us can achieve these ideals of beauty? The answer is - few. This can be because of a host of genetic, environmental and chance factors. Some reasons can be socioeconomic and indeed we see that the large proportion of "jocks" in schools are upper middle class or higher. Some reasons can be upbringing; neglectful parents perhaps that do not see the need to snap their children out of their sedentary lifestyles. Or social; by chance the person is not in a clique where sports is not held in high regard and instead values say gaming.

But the larger part is genetic. Save for exercise and diet, few other environmental factors can influence beauty. Symmetry and physical endowments (which by the way includes the bashful topic of bust size and penile length)are both inherited.

But the question is, what are the side effects of ugliness? The answers are obvious: low self-esteem, defeatism, pessimism, depression, anxiety, introversion, social alienation, non-conformity, self-denial. But the worst part is when the person becomes self-hating or anthrophobic. Low self-esteem will inhibit the psychology and social advancement of the person. When depression and anxiety sets in from reasons such as due to relationships, suicide may become an option for the person.

Yet we see at the other end of the spectrum where beauty is in surplus. We get jocks running around getting bimbos pregnant. And personifying this is Christiano Ronaldo who by the way has a son because of a one night stand with a waitress. We see superficiality, promiscuity, arrogance, narcissism and decadence with the surplus of beauty. And the reason is pretty obvious. A person with beauty is heaped with praises and admiration (or even crushes and obsessions) by others and this can easily inflate a person's ego. We see this ego inflation ruining the lives of celebrities such as Britney Spears, Paris Hilton (fake celeb) and more.

So what is it that the world needs? Beauty is good evolutionarily and even in terms of career and life it is desirable. But personally, because of overexcessive praises from people with the lack of beauty, people with beauty are corrupted.

The solution is a way that everyone can choose to be beautiful instead of being confined in the same looks. A world where everyone is like the virtual avatars of video games, where looks are a fluid concept. There are two solutions I have to suggest the first is eugenics and the second is mind transference.

The first idea is now applicable. The idea is to prevent ugly people from passing their genes down or allowing beautiful people to spread their genes to more people. This will be a kind of social engineering or artificial selection of human beings by breaking down the barriers of marriage to allow what evolutionist call "differential reproduction". This can occur by drastically sterilising ugly people or by preventing ugly couples from having their own children and forcing them to have children by using eggs or sperm from beautiful people (so one of the couple will be the biological parent). The benefits are obvious. the next generation becomes increasing beautiful and will have fewer and fewer genetic abberrations. The drawback is that eugenics is unlikely to be supported by people or politicians given its history with Hitler and the fact that it necessitates the invasion of the human right to freedom of choice.

The second idea is for the future. One day, a body will no longer be a body. It will be an avatar. As scientists are improving simulations of nervous systems using neural networks, we may one day in the future be able to upload and download minds from and into bodies. In other words we can engineer bodies for takeover. Or what about one day we may be able to perform surgery on the body at a molecular level to the point of changing even the genome. But all of these require a way for us to control the movements of molecules precisely.

This issue is very close to my heart because I know what it is like to be ugly and I am ugly. I was fat because of upbringing and had a hard time making friends that valued sports and this kept me in the vicious cycle of obesity. But I snapped out of this cycle out of sheer determination. But what I cannot change are my genetic attributes: flat feet, keratosis pilaris. I only hope that one day when I am financially independent, surgery can change things. But for the future generations, I don't want them to face the same emotional struggles I had. To the ugly people or genetically poor people out there, I only hope that you think twice before bringing another genetically poor person into this world.