The problem of ugliness

The airlines are considering a novel move: charge their overweight passengers more than what their more attractive counterparts pay. This would be good; it would provide a needed incentive. Since no-one wants to visit or do business with fat, ugly people, those people who've let themselves go clearly need to stay near to home and work extensively on their problem, venturing out when they are presentable.

Once travelers see the benefits of not having to sit next to fat people, not having to look at them, and having more room when they eat, I predict a hue and cry will arise for the extension of similar restrictions to all avenues. Workplaces will soon become more pleasant, with fat and ugly workers having to work at reduced wages until they fix themselves up. Similarly, schools and universities will be pleasanter, with fat students being required to attend exercise classes after class, and where students ugly for other reasons will attend lessons in grooming, make-up, dress, health and skin care, admittedly being somewhat stuck with the faces they have.
For newsgroups, one solution might be to enforce a quota on the number of daily posts accepted from fat, ugly people . For unmonitored groups, simple upgrades to newsreaders could be designed that would filter out superfluous posts based on the physical condition of the various members posting. A consensus on who fits the bill and who doesn't of yet would be based on each group's Picture Gallery: it'd be necessary for everyone to send in two recently updated pictures of themselves: one of their face, one head-to-toe, but that's a small price to pay for a benefit to one and all.

Restrictions or not, we all want to know what the posters we're associating with look like: we just might find ourselves in a situation where meeting them is a real possibility, for example, and no-one wants to dine, or do other things, with fat and ugly people.
Better days ahead, especially when one considers that after ugliness is much reduced in the world, we can get to work on some of the other failings we people have, incentivising the traits, one after another, until all are improved, if not eliminated: shortages of knowledge, lack of sophistication, racism and prejudice, unwarranted patriotism, poor senses of humour, laziness, lack of creativity and originality, conservative political views the sky's the limit.

Charles