Would you agree with this statement?

With so many technologies, creams, image editors, surgeries, exercises etc. available to us, are we denied any excuse to not be beautiful? If you hate something about yourself, you can easily get it fixed or removed. All it takes is effort, sometimes money, and time.

You want to look better in your swimsuit? Do some crunches.
You wish your acne wasn't so bad? Stop eating chocolate.
You want to lose ten pounds? Start running.

Are we as humans denied any excuse to not be beautiful?

EDIT: http://makeagif.com/media/12-31-2012/gwdAE2.gif

Money my friend
Money is one thing that is hard to come by

but also
You dont like your teeth
you can get them ripped out and put in perfect implants

Dont like your hair? Change it

We as humans are really self conscious

Are most people not just beautiful even with a flaw or two. Everyone is born with a different facial structure too, there is not much we can do about that. If someone has an unusually large or small chin or nose we can't just go around and fix that, and we don't have to. Sometimes obsessing too much over changing our appearance can lead to us looking worse than ever. Just look at Michael Jackson and his obsessions. He felt that he was imperfect, sought to fix that through whatever technology and medicine was available to him at the time, and it didn't do him much good.

So yes. If "beautiful" is something only to applied to smooth faces with no distinctive features at all, then we indeed have excuses not to be "beautiful". But I think most people are more beautiful than they realize just as they are.

The only excuse we need is that we don't want to be. Just because the tools exist doesn't mean there should be pressure to use them.

Don't worry Dalek, once you grow up you'll grow out of this appearance obsession you have.

We're denied every excuse, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's a vague, fluctuating, indefinable thing, and we as humans leap upon that as a blank slate to list out every reason someone is not beautiful. Because it's imagined, it doesn't matter what someone does. The rest of us will make sure they're not good enough.

People obsess too much about their appearance and being beautiful. Now, I'm not saying appearance isn't important, it certainly is to some degree, but hating yourselves for having a few moles or too high cheekbones is just silly. You could always go to a plastic surgeon, but I would only consider that wasted money. Some people are so outward nowadays that it becomes unhealthy.

eh you can have a fugly face, i mean isn't there a redneck joke about butter face? But ya, you can get a great body through work. Just takes time and effort i suppose

I will point out right now: by "beautiful" I mean beauty in accordance to one's own standards.

As we know there is no set standard for beauty. Beauty is diverse and certain things may only work with certain people. So, someone may look good with a cleft chin whereas someone else may not. Or as another example, someone may look good with freckles while someone else might not.

So, when I say "we have no excuse to not be beautiful" , I mean in accordance to our own standards.

The only reason people "feel ugly" is because of the pressure they put on themselves to achieve their own personal standard of beauty. So (not you) but if you think you're ugly, it's your fault for thinking that way. It's your fault you don't work out to get the perfect body you crave. It's your fault you keep eating oily foods that give you acne. If people took the measures to achieve their own standards of beauty and not someone else, they wouldn't feel ugly. So, in essence, ugliness does not exist. It is a figment of the imagination. People only feel ugly because they don't take the steps to get what they want. How can someone want clear skin if they gorge themselves on sweets every day?

We are denied any excuse to not be beautiful in accordance to our own standards because it is our faults we do not take the steps to become beautiful in our own eyes.

EDIT: So, in a nutshell, what I'm saying is, we have all of these tools available to us in order to make ourselves feel better. Most people want to please themselves when it comes to appearance. If someone feels ugly, it's their own fault because they don't take the steps to become beautiful in their own eyes. I am not talking about societal pressure or people being superficial. I'm talking about our own laziness that stops us from getting what we want. With this said, I believe that we as humans have no excuse to not be beautiful.

I cannot grow a legit beard
and as far as i know there is no surgery for that

I want to be beautiful, but the fashion magazines tell me I won't be unless I become anorexic. The only way I can accept myself now is if I stop eating all together, and try to live up to the western definition of beauty. The media has distorted my view, and I can't think on my own anymore.

I'm pretty sure the ads for the solutions you're peddling that bombard people 24/7 with panic-stricken warnings about how ugly they are have more to do with it than personal standards. How convenient that apparently the solution is to do whatever those ads tell you?

Do you feel ugly for not having a beard?

If you do, then it's your fault for wanting a beard in the first place.

What I am talking about is possibility. If someone wants something impossible, it's their fault for wanting it.

Beauty is subjective. There is your excuse not to conform to a particular conception of beauty.

If I wanted wings and felt that without wings, I am ugly, then it's my fault that I feel ugly because my personal standard tells me wings are beautiful. It's impossible for me to have wings, therefore I cannot fulfill my own standard of beauty. However, humans cannot grow wings. So, it's my fault that I feel ugly because I want something I can't have.

Now, if I wanted darker skin, and felt ugly without it but I actually tried to get darker skin through tanning, then I am taking the proper steps to fulfilling my own standard. If I just lazed around wishing for darker skin, not trying to tan or anything, then it would be my fault that I felt ugly because I'm not doing anything about it.

This question isn't one of media. It's one of self-image. People only feel ugly because they don't try to change it.

So nobody is ugly, they're all just lazy and weak-willed? Phew, what a relief! I was afraid we'd all have to be judged by some jerk who doesn't know us based on meaninglessly shallow personal whim.

That's a load off MY mind!

Feels good, doesn't it?

But you probably don't get what I'm saying.

Answer this so we can get started: Do you feel ugly?

Wasn't that (the title) what the crazy plastic surgeon in Bioshock say?

Yes.

I was him in another life.

It is about media. If media did not push what is beautiful this month then there would not be a lot of people worrying about the self image. It just boils down to buy this product or service to conform to what we think is beautiful this month. It is so easy to pay us money so you can feel better about yourself and after enough people pay for it we change it so they will have to buy again. It is a never ending cycle.

I think you could get wings if you really wanted them. They might not work right but that is a chance one would have to take.

I'm still not entirely sure what this discussion is supposed to be about. You're asking if there are any excuses why one shouldn't view themselves as beautiful or make changes in their lives to become beautiful to themselves? A lot of people will never find themselves beautiful no matter what they do. Other people define their own personal beauty based on the opinions of others or the opinions of the media. The media expects women to be anorexic while somehow maintaining giant briasts.
And still other people simply can't afford the necessary surgeries or whatever to fix certain problems they perceive about their appearance.

There are plenty of excuses.

And this is just over-simplification.

I won't rip on you too much. Seems you have a hard time presenting your case but really you've even worked around your own initial question at this point. Do I feel ugly? Not really. Do I feel like I look better if I've done something like wash my hair and comb it appropriately? Indeed. Am I beautiful regardless of if I feel beautiful or not? That's up to the viewer.

Really "beautiful" isn't really a term that can be worked with properly without consider from what perspective a person is being viewed. Different peoples have different ideas of what they consider to be beautiful, so what is beautiful changes from person to person. I myself most likely look horrid to some but beautiful to others. Someone who likes guys to have youthful faces, long curly hair and a beard might find me beautiful. Someone who likes men with short spiky hair and for them to be clean shaven might think I have a lot to work on before I could be called beautiful.

Maybe most all of us don't have to feel like we are not beautiful, but if so then I think it has little to do with modern products to make us look prettier. It's largely about how we view ourselves and often all you need to feel beautiful is those little things. Some hot water, scissors and a comb can go a long way on their own.

All I know is this beard I have is a CURSE. I hate shaving and I miss my clear face when I was teen. >=/

*burns face*

Now I feel sixay.

The question is, with so many opportunities to become better people, aesthetically, do we really have a reason to not be beautiful?

Like I said, we don't because we make ourselves feel ugly due to our own standards.

As you have mentioned, some people may base their standards of beauty on what the media says. The media's way of advertising beauty is meant to be unattainable so to keep people striving for beauty by purchasing their products. So, with the logic I have presented earlier (if you want something impossible, it's your fault for wanting it) it is your fault if you want to look like what the media sells you because the media is selling you something designed to be impossible. Since it's literally impossible to look like what the media says you should (thanks to image editing, you can't bend your body like you can pixels) it's your fault for wanting to look like that because it's impossible.

I suppose my argument may be a bit skewed because it went from a simple question to a rather complex query. There are a few strings attached.

You have no excuse to not be beautiful because everything you can possibly want reasonably, is attainable.

Wanting to be taller is unreasonable as you cannot bend you height to your whim.
Wanting to have certain features (like blue eyes, or a drastically different skin tone) is unreasonable because you cannot change your eye color nor your skin tone too drastically.

The list goes on.
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So, to simplify. We have no excuse to not be beautiful because everything we could reasonably desire is attainable.

What about the things that are unreasonable? Are those not excuses?

And what about if someone has a giant nose that they don't like? Is that something unreasonable, or has it become reasonable since we're able to perform plastic surgery to fix it? Because then the excuse could be money or fear of problems in surgery or ignorance about where to go to get the surgery done, among other things.

Take people who think they are too fat, for example. Sometimes this could be the result of physical handicaps or thyroid problems. Those are some pretty clear excuses.

I think you have a really shallow argument without any real basis for it. You're basically saying "stop having certain opinions."

I would like a beard, and it is possible but there isnt a surgery to get it done
in a couple years i am planning on getting new teeth