&#62;This is getting rather far afield, though.<p>No it isn't. It's directly addressing your claim that good skin makes a person worth more. If you really believed that, you would not find your choice in that situation to be difficult at all.<p>I think that your claim is just hard-headed posing. You don't really believe any such thing, but for some reason you seem to think that you <i>ought</i> to believe it, or that professing to believe it makes you sound objective and rational. It doesn't; it makes you sound crazy.<p>&#62;If you haven't noticed a massive taboo against judging people, either we live in very different cultures or you haven't been paying very close attention.<p>The taboo is on judging people in the same way that we judge products, services and merchandise. And quite right too -- there <i>should</i> be a taboo on doing that.