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Calliagnosia is a condition in which a person can not recognize beauty in a persons face. They can not tell who has good looks or who has bad looks. The story was about a school which was trying to adopt calliagnosia. The company who manufactures make up are trying to persuade people to not use it. Some of the parts of view are from the perspective of people who had calliagnosia their whole life.  When they first got off of the calliagnosia at first they loved it but after a while they became self conscious and got back on it. The media then came out with a new calliagnosia to block sound so it cant tell the difference between good sounding voices and bad sounding voices. This was put into place after the media started using perfect voices.

Response:

This whole article is about the media controlling people through looks and listening. Using beauty to try and get people to but their products. In my opinion the calliagnosia could be beneficial in the work place or against discrimination in school.  It should be able to be turned off whenever people are on there own time though. Towards the end of the story they started talking about the spex which could turn off and on at pleasure. I think this is a good idea to use because then you do not have to use it while your with your friends or family. The calliagnosia is a good idea when it is used in moderation but not to for an extended period of time.  People should be allowed to look at someone without there faces being changed to bland. This could be taken as a part of censoring which can harm more then hurt. Being human is what we do best and calliagnosia can take away from what being human is about.