Poll: Shallow Hal vision

[heyheysg]

For those that don't know Shallow Hal was a movie in the early 2000s about this guy who was very superficial and thus could only like women based on their looks.

Anthony Robbins then hypnotized him so that he could only see inner beauty.

He then falls in love with a fat girl with a good heart.

Question is, which vision would you like to live the rest of your life with?

Regular biological, social conditioning - Members of the opposite sex appear attractive based on facial symmetry, genetic markers and what advertisers think of beauty.

Shallow Hal vision - Inner beauty is outer beauty

And why?

 

[Betancore]

Shallow Hal vision. I would like to be able to see people for what they really are, and not be distracted by their exterior. It might even make me a happier person to live that way. I'm pretty superficial myself, and I think that sometimes, I might miss out on meeting truly amazing people just because I judge most people initially by the way they look.

 

[Fanitullen]

Regular. Shallow Hal is almost killed, several times, during the movie because he can't see reality. I don't want to be stabbed just because the giant guy insulting me is small on the inside.

 

[Betancore]

Regular. Shallow Hal is almost killed, several times, during the movie because he can't see reality. I don't want to be stabbed just because the giant guy insulting me is small on the inside.

Oh dear. Maybe I should've watched the movie/read the plot sypnosis on Wikipedia before making my choice. Still, based on my interpretation of the two different types of vision, I guess I'll stick with what I chose.

 

[ottenni]

Im quite happy how i am. Just being a great person wont do it for me, thats what i have friends for. I want both.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

Regular vision. The body is an extension of the soul into the physical world. Even though it can not provide genuine information about the soul that rests within, it can tell us a lot. It can suggest how many lengths people go to to take care of themselves, and is suggestive in many ways of how a person feels about themselves. Even purely physiological things, like the relative health of a person, are determined by looking at a normal body. We all want to find someone who is beautiful on the inside, but finding someone who's beautiful on the inside and probably going to die early from heart failure isn't something I have any particular desire for. As long as our ghosts wear these shells, we can not deny the extent to which they too are a part of us.

 

[Arkvoodle]

I don't think one is more essential than the other.



And "Shallow Hal" is a terrible movie.

 

[RouxBelle]

I'd say regular. I'll admit that I am a bit shallow, but I think that everyone is. And no matter what you want to think looks are going to be part of how a person sees you whether that is good or bad

 

[Macgyvercas]

Regular. Shallow Hal is almost killed, several times, during the movie because he can't see reality. I don't want to be stabbed just because the giant guy insulting me is small on the inside.

Essentially this. I'd prefer not to get stabbed.

Besides, I wouldn't know any other way of seeing things than the way I already do. It's the same reason why if there was a cure for Autism, I wouldn't take it.

 

[astrav1]

Shallow hal of course. Then they are wonderful people and beautiful.

 

[SideburnsPuppy]

Not Shallow Hal Vision. For instance, when Hal takes the girl to bed in the movie, once she takes her underwear off, it's huge. So she is still fat. So if I, say, tried to put my arm around that girl, even though I see myself as being perfectly able to, I wouldn't be able to. Then I would think my brain was lying to me and I would vomit.

 

[Queen Michael]

That movie did not make sense. Shallow Hal-vision allowed him to instantly perceive[footnote]Sorry about the split infinitive[/footnote] all girls in possesion of inner beauty as physically beautiful[footnote]that is, what he considered as physically beautiful, so if he'd had an obesity fetish they would have looked fat to him but since he liked thin ladies the nice girls looked thin[/footnote], but how does that work out logically? You can't tell if somebody's a good person from their looks, but for Shallow Hal-vision to work it has to be possible to determine a girl's inner beauty instantly so that your brain's able to change your perception of a girl's physical looks to a version that matches her inner beuaty. In real life, if he'd have seen a girl with a Red Cross T-shirt she'd have looked fine, but if he learned that she stole that shirt from the Red Cross she would have changed from good-looking to ugly before his very eyes so that her outer beauty would match her inner one. And if it was impossible to determine how good a person a woman was, she'd be invisible.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Definitely regular vision. Unless reality itself changed to reflect what I was seeing (i.e. fat people actually become thinner so that there's no conflict between what you feel and what you see).

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

How would rather see people normally to be honest. be a decent human being, get to know someone for who they are, and yu don't need Shallow Hal vision. It's the lazy man's way out