Re: Is make up deception?
I feel like you’re going off on unnecessary tangents. You’re the one that brought up the question of whether potential spouses should be shown actual sizes of body parts before marriage. By definition a deception is to deliberately portray something as being very different from what it actually is. By that definition, a push-up bra is a deception. Whether that cover is blown sooner or later doesn’t change the fact that it is a deception. As for other examples you have given such as…in-laws turning out mentally challenged after the wedding…well, that’s a complex question. Both attitudes and state of mind change and relationships are very complex; it’s easy for many of us to believe that someone who doesn’t agree with us has a mental impairment. But for a minute, let’s view your argument in simplistic terms. Let’s say that in-laws do turn out markedly different from how they portrayed themselves before marriage…then yes…it’s a deception. So, what? Are you trying to make the point that this is a much more serious deception than make up? Okay, sure. I can agree with that. But with many things in life, there is a spectrum. Some deceptions are serious…some are even cruel…but diverting our attention toward the bigger issues still doesn’t make the much “lesser” things a “non”–deception. It just becomes a contest of sorts on what is more or less or of the same quality:…deception.