Beauty, intelligence, personality, strength and any other skill are
similar in nature. They are all partly a function of innate gift, and
partly a function of what one does with it. Thus, all these things are
in part inborn and in part accomplished; and as such therefore exist on
the same moral footing.

To devalue physical beauty, while valuing these other things, is
therefore hypocritical. Physical beauty is a form of achievement, to
the same extent as are intellect, strength, personality and all other
skills. One must either respect all these things; or respect none of
them. And the sane solution is to respect and value them all.

The PC ideology about this issue is therefore hypocritical. To devalue
physical beauty while valuing all other things that, like physical
beauty, are a shared function of innate gift and personal action, is to
apply double standard. If personality and intelligence are
accomplishment, then so is physical beauty; and if physical beauty is
not an accomplishment then neither are personality or intelligence. But
the problem goes beyond hypocrisy; it goes instead to very profound
wrong. The wrong is this:

The separation induced between LIKES and VALUES.