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 rather an odd type of designation to use in such a context. — Robert Lockhart
Would it then be overly fanciful to speculate that the common use of the word ‘ridiculous’ in the context of the obvious inequality referred to concerning personal appearance might be a behavioural example symptomatic of our subliminal recognition of the nihilism of the inequity inevitably characterising in practice a situation which in fact is thus exclusively descended from amoral logical causes? — Robert Lockhart
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 every degree both of physical beauty and ugliness – and that in practice a state of absolute inequity in terms of personal situation would prevail among human beings. — Robert Lockhart
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