Social debate materials about whether it’s about appearance or talent

→Family debater: The beauty of the soul is more important than the beauty of the appearance

The widest thing in the world is the ocean, wider than the ocean is the sky, and wider than the sky is the human body Soul, therefore, we believe that the beauty of the soul is more important than the beauty of the appearance. As a conceptual form of social beauty, inner beauty is essentially goodness. Please see:

→ Opposition debater: We believe that physical beauty is more important than inner beauty.

First of all, the first impression each of us gives to others is our appearance. If Cinderella hadn’t relied on the carriage transformed from a pumpkin, the beautiful clothes and glass slippers brought by the birds, how would she have gotten the prince? Admiration? Secondly, everyone loves beauty. Don’t you like the beautiful pictures below?

→Assistant debater: The Cinderella example used in the opponent’s rebuttal just illustrates the importance of inner beauty.

Because Cinderella is kind-hearted, otherwise, why didn’t Cinderella’s two beautiful sisters gain the favor of the prince? There is an old saying: Love comes from the heart. If you don’t believe it, look at it. If your heart is beautiful, your smile will be as beautiful as a child’s.

→ Opposition debater: If you show your talent, then people will have a good first impression of you and be willing to get to know you.

If you don’t look good to the audience, will people’s first impression of you be good? It’s impossible to tell someone’s innermost feelings right away. You can only judge from their appearance at first! Therefore, outer beauty is sometimes more important than inner beauty. Only outer beauty will make people interested in knowing your inner beauty. Such a popular truth is the same in nature

→ Positive debater: Open the pages of history, and you will see that many literati have explained to us the importance of inner beauty.

The sage Confucius has a humble appearance. More than 2,000 years have passed. This sage who "returned to Donglu for thousands of years of rituals and music, and worshiped Su Wang for eternity" still shows his unique inner qualities with his gentleman's cultivation. beautiful.

I think of Madame Curie, who used to wear dusty and oily work clothes to turn over ore, stir asphalt, and look for traces of radium in the messy smelting pot. Can you say she is not beautiful?

In the past, there was a saying that was deeply rooted in people's hearts: "Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and you will not be afraid of traveling all over the world." People say that now is an era where faces are valued. "Plastic surgery to change one's destiny" is no longer a joke, and "face-changing" is no longer an attempt only done by a few celebrities. From young people to middle-aged people and even the elderly, a considerable number of men and women are willing to undergo "facial transformation" as long as they have the conditions. In the eyes of many people, having a beautiful face and handsome face makes it easy to fall in love, apply for a job, and get promoted.

In modern society, life is a tense, exhausting and colorful stage play, full of uncertainties. People eat fast food, drive fast cars, walk fast, walk in a hurry, race against time to plan projects, and are anxious to achieve results. The pace of life is faster and the radius of activity is wider, but the interactions between people are shallower. In the limited contact time, the "face", the first impression, becomes even more important. Many people believe that if the "face" is ordinary, they will be ignored in daily life. When looking for a job or falling in love, it is easy to be forgotten among the crowd; if the "face" is good-looking, it will attract attention and increase the number of people. What a chance of winning.

As the saying goes, a tree is like a skin, and a person is like a face. Face is very important to people. Recruitment requires dignified appearance, blind dates focus on first impressions, and both men and women need to have outstanding looks... Especially today with the popularity of social media, only by constantly "swiping your face" can you be known and remembered. It has evolved from "judging people by their appearance" to "recognizing people by their faces." It is a social reality issue, not a good thing? In fact, acknowledging the fact does not mean acknowledging the opinion. To deny this is to deny human nature. Looking at faces is a fact, but looking at faces is not a problem, just looking at faces. In the age of plastic surgery, what’s the point of not recognizing the importance of facial plastic surgery? Self-deception.

Beauty will add points to your life, but it will not be everything.

The most unwilling thing in Diana's life was that her stunning appearance was lost to the old and ugly Camilla. However, Prince Charles dumped her and went to Camilla because he felt he had more to say with the latter.

Yang Yuhuan has been favored by Emperor Tang Ming for nearly twenty years. Don't think that she relies on "looking back and smiling to be charming". Such an understanding is too superficial. What Yang Yuhuan really relies on is connotation. Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty was obsessed with opera, and Yang Yuhuan was proficient in music and was his literary confidant. The song "Nancy Clothes and Feather Clothes" that has been passed down through the ages is a work of collaboration between the two.

American girl Eleanor's mother has been worried about her since she was a child: "Are you so ugly? What will you do in the future?" This ugly girl's mother died when she was eight years old, and her father died two years later. She became an orphan. Perhaps it was precisely because she knew that only she could save herself that she worked hard to learn knowledge and became a talented woman. Later, she met Franklin Roosevelt, a handsome Harvard student. The latter was deeply impressed by her intelligence. Their relationship was strongly opposed by her future mother-in-law. She felt that Eleanor was not worthy of her son at all, but the husband still supported her. Overcome the pressure and married Eleanor. As everyone knows what happened next, she became the president's wife.

Roosevelt was influenced by Eleanor. Without her help, he might not have become president. It was her outstanding performance in the campaign that gave Roosevelt points.

In 1945, after Roosevelt passed away, the United Nations issued the epoch-making Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The birth of this declaration marked that the concept of "human rights" has since become the most authoritative moral concept in the modern world. Do you think this has anything to do with Eleanor?

Of course, because it was Eleanor who presided over and drafted this manifesto! In other words, the words "human rights" that we talk about all day long were contributed by Eleanor!

Even Grandma Qiong Yao said with a sharp tongue: "Beautiful people always think that they can win the whole world just by beauty. Little do they know that beauty is a very cruel thing, because it will definitely fade away and grow old. So a smart person People should know how to enrich themselves. In this way, when people grow old, although they cannot be as bright as flowers, they can be as evergreen as trees."

It is not necessary to put all your money on your face. Enriching your mind is as important as building your face. , even more cost-effective, more valuable, and more room for appreciation in the future. Beauty may be a priority ticket to life, but it will not be a permanent pass.

I secretly believe that the current society has entered a misunderstanding, that is, our pursuit of physical beauty has entered a stage of overcorrection.

Of course, history always moves forward according to the law of two steps forward and one step back. We should not try to reverse the situation by trying to reverse the situation. The situation will always be stronger than the people. But you have to be clear-headed, don't fool yourself first.

There is nothing wrong with pursuing physical beauty, but the mistake is to think that having a beautiful face can be done once and for all. One day you will understand: having a skill is much more advanced than just taking selfies and retouching pictures, so there is no need to praise it. Selling them around with a face for a price.

Looking at faces ensures that we can have a favorable impression or a sense of distance from a person at the first sight. It is the laziest and most cost-effective evaluation criterion. I don’t need to test the content of your Four Books and Five Classics, I don’t need to ask about your growth environment and background, I don’t even need to talk to you, I have already made a basic judgment on you based on your appearance. This process may only take at least 0.1 seconds. As for whether stereotypes or even prejudice will be formed later, different people have different reactions.

No matter from the perspective of improving future generations or from an aesthetic perspective. Talent, character, knowledge, hobbies, these are the shining points of a person that you cannot see from their face. They are not in the same category as appearance. She is ugly, but she is very talented. Or, a person is ugly, but she has a good personality and is kind to others. These things are very important for people who are more than just good looks. If you only look at faces and ignore these human qualities, I would say that you are a superficial person, a person who has not escaped from vulgar taste. As human history has evolved to this day, we have all kinds of criteria to judge a person, not just limited to appearance. People who have gone further will say that even if you are good for nothing, achieve nothing, and look bold, just because you are a person, you are valuable and worthy of being praised.

Is this a society that values ??appearance? We are aware of the many phenomena in life where people are simply judged by their faces without looking at anything else, so we conclude that this is a society that only looks at faces. But in fact, some things should only be based on face. Or to correct it, looking at faces is a necessary condition for you to make some choices. Print models and public relations departments, they care about appearance, because if a person looks good, the effect will be different. Sometimes, it’s not that you can do whatever you want if you don’t look good, but that you can do whatever you want if you look good.

Let’s look back at reality. We say that if appearance is the only criterion for all resource allocation, it obviously violates Aristotle's principle of purpose. Because if you put appearance on a resource that should not be judged by appearance, it violates the original purpose of the resource. Academics look at knowledge, and doctors look at medical skills. What the school wants you to do is not to make vase decorations, but to teach and educate people and change the world; what the hospital wants you to do is not to be the most beautiful, but to save lives and heal the wounded. If appearance could determine everything, the world would be out of order and the purpose of resources would not be achieved.