CMV: looks are subjective in the same way taste in music is subjective - very little

Looks are subjective in the same way taste in music is subjective.

If I put a chimpanzee in front of a piano, he would smash his fists on the keys randomly. No reasonable person on the planet could say the sound he makes is pleasant to the ears.

The actual number of melodies that are pleasant to our ears is actually a tiny, tiny, tiny subset of the whole group of melodies that exist.

For a extremely simplified version: 1 note every 0.25 seconds, with 16 possible notes. A 20 second melody would have (16)⁸⁰ possible combinations, which is a result too high to even comprehend. And again, this is simplified to the point of absurdity.

And out of this (16)⁸⁰ combinations, the actual number of melodies that would be pleasing to our ears is magnitudes smaller. Music theorists can explain better than I can, but to put it simply the notes must conform to some kind of mathematical pattern to produce a pleasant harmony. One can go to youtube and listen to popular songs where the tune is off by a single beat, and see how awful it is to listen to.

Once the notes have arranged themselves into a manner pleasing to us, then we can begin to discuss about "subjectivity". In other words, once we have removed the 99.999999% of melodies that would be excruciating to listen to, we can then discuss which of the tiny, tiny percentage left do we find most pleasing.

The same is true for looks. Subjectivity only begins to come into it once we have cancelled out the vast majority of looks that are objectively not pleasing to our eyes. Much like how the musical notes must have a certain "harmony" to them, so too must our appearance. Subjectivity only comes into play once a specific harmony has been achieved.

What could be subjective is: does one prefer the extreme masculine look of say, Henry Caville, or the more boyish beauty of young Leonardo DiCaprio. What is NOT subjective is does one prefer Henry Caville or the elephant man. Like a piece of music with no tune, the elephant man`s face is so out of sync that it is simply unpleasant to look at.

Looks DO have a subjectivity to them, but only once a certain objective standard has been reached. The mistake bluepills make is to say that ALL looks are subjective. This is an absurd a statement as saying that a chimpanzee banging on a piano vs Mozart is subjective.