I don't really have the key to survival. I was just hoping to hook you in. But it's still an interesting notion: if Evolution works, why are there still "ugly" people. (if you accept the fact that there is a standard of beauty, then you have to accept that when you get far enough down the continuum from the Beauty end, there's an Ugly end.)
When I first heard the question, my immediate response was "Beer!" But while this may explain some couplings, and thus births, it isn't the answer the educator was looking for. Knowing that none of us knew the point of his question, he answered it.
A standard of beauty does exist, but it is different for males and females. So 'less than beauty' exists because a Handsome man will marry a Beautiful woman and a daughter of theirs my inherit his face or body type, which on a female is seen as 'less than beauty.' And vice versa.
And while there is a certain amount of logic to this, I decided that my answer was just as good.
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If everyone was pretty, who would we direct our entire pop culture machine at making feel insignificant and vulnerable? Ugly people exist so that products can be sold to them by makers of sensible dress slacks, cosmetics, and other products that cause supermodels to find you attractive when you use them.
Most of us depend on our spouse to help create the perfect child. -Look at you and your lovely wife Liz.
Those that aren't as intelligent as yourself are unable to procure a wife or husband to help cover their genetic flaws. Your beer-theory then comes in quite handy and the Ugly Threshold Standard is set,--and always will be prevalent, unless alcohol is removed from this planet.
Hence, the world may be full of ugly people, but those blessed with brains help strengthen the Beauty Threshold.
Damn, I'm smart.
The answer is paper bags.
My immediate response to just about everything is Beer.
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