It’s always struck me as sounding a bit paradoxical whenever I hear an outstanding looking person being described as ‘ridiculously good looking’, inasmuch as the pejorative term ‘ridiculous’ would seem ostensibly to be a rather odd type of designation to use in such a context. The term is of course similarly employed in many other instances – like for example how good a pizza might happen to taste – and is intended to mean ‘extremely’, but the paradox in the usage seems to me to be at its’ most blatant when occurring in the context of describing physical beauty – and also possibly at its’ most interesting. Perhaps of course it’s ‘just me’, but why - when I hear the term being used in the latter context - do I frequently get the irresistible impression that what is actually being subliminally expressed is the idea, ‘Somehow this just should not be.’?

Suppose everything constituting our human situation were descended exclusively from logical causes. Such a reality would then entail that every phenomena that was logically possible would in principle be manifestable to its’ logical limit in the abstract – including for example, within the context of human physionomy, every degree both of physical beauty and ugliness – and thus that in practice a state of absolute inequity in terms of personal situation would prevail among human beings. Of course, many types of inequity are not immediately obvious, as in for ex the extremes of variation which exists among individuals regarding personal ‘IQ’ level and, in that respect, variation in personal beauty could be considered as being merely the physically evident ‘tip of the iceberg’ regarding general inequity.

Would it then be overly fanciful to speculate that the common use of the word ‘ridiculous’ in the context of the singularly obvious inequality referred to concerning personal appearance might be a behavioural example symptomatic of our subliminal recognition of the nihilism of the inequity which in practice would inevitably characterise our situation were it in fact to be thus exclusively descended from amoral logical causes?