Good Looks Go Further Than Brains - Against

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Good morning fellow students, in today’s world the media puts pressure on us to believe that men and women who are attractive get further in life than brains because the ‘lookers’ are given more attention. How many times today have you looked at someone and solely judged them on their looks? Have you walked past a girl and thought “Oh she looks easy” or “That boy is a jock.” I’m not proud of it but I have to admit I also have fallen for appearances. We as humans naturally go for the more attractive people first, and then stop to consider everyone else second. Today I stand before you, testifying that this is utter nonsense and I want you to do the same. Firstly, Looks diminish but brains mature with age. As you get older your gorgeous, thick locks turn grey and begin to thin, your skin wrinkles and your eyelashes fall out. A survey done by UF graduates ranking beauty vs. brains showed that out of the 191 men and women interviewed, brains were accurately ranked far above beauty. Brains will undoubtedly stay with you forever, unless of course you acquire a horrendous disease such as Alzheimer’s. Even still, studies show that patients may not lose their full intelligence when they obtain such an unbearable disease or at least not surrender their intelligence until the disease has fully taken hold. There is nothing you can do about losing your once incredible beauty, the beauty that had the ability to turn heads walking by. Everybody will grow old and get wrinkly and they will lose the great body they’ve had in their younger years. Lots of women spend thousands and thousands of dollars on cosmetics and surgeries anticipating that they will be able to stay eye-catchingly beautiful for their entire lives. But no matter how much make-up is caked on or how much Botox is injected, old age will take over the body, changing it and weakening it and there is nothing that can be

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