If someone came up to you and started talking and showing interest, but you saw someone really attractive sitting across the room, would you continue talking to the first person, or blow them off for the attractive one?
Have you ever "judged a book by it's cover" and came to regret it later?
2007-05-29 10:34:38 · 14 answers · asked by sabby 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Honestly, WE ALL judge people, everyday. It's an instinct that every living thing has, even animals have natural instincts for survival. It's not wrong when these judgements run through our heads, it's bad if we base our opinion on them SOLEY on apperance, wtihout getting to know them. If I were having a conversation with a not-so-attractive person, and I say someone else, I would stay and finish the conversation with the not-so-attractive person,(it would be very rude of me to walk out) and then approach the attractive person that I wanted to talk to.
2007-05-29 10:40:25 · answer #1 · answered by My Other Boo Bee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you motives and goals are. If you want to sleep with a book - then by all means judge it by the cover. If you are or have dreams and aspirations to be a shallow minded person with no growth capacity...then be shallow.
Your question, the first part, is incongruous. That is to say...you are making an assumption that the first person who was showing interest wasn't attractive (as in the only people to come up to talk to you...or me...are unattractive people).
Now, on the other hand - just cause someone may be interested in me and is talking to me does not mean that I have the same interest in that person (for the mere fact that they are showing interest in me)...And that going to talk to the person I find attractive is judging a book by it's cover.
Perhaps my interest, all along, was on the other side of the room and this ugly uninteresting person popped out of nowhere and got in my way.
People judge books by their covers all the time, every day. There is no way for you to make a choice otherwise. You just have to base it on what you know and what you have learned.
Trust me...people have taken years to get to know someone only to find out later, much later, they are not the person that they thought. And no judging of covers was going on.
So what are you really asking? Is it alright to be shallow? Sure it is. Tons of people are.
Then they grow up.
2007-05-29 10:42:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First about the attractive..For me I will continue talking to the first person,then I will see the atractive any time later.
Second I can't judge a book by it's title also I can't judge a person by his/her cast.
At the end "THE ANGLES ARE SWINDLE"..means that the first person is may be good than the attractive..And if a title of a book is good may be it's theme is not good.
SO DON"T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER..
2007-05-29 10:55:03 · answer #3 · answered by cool_angel_diamond 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do judge the book by its cover but i am also open to proving the pudding My judgement is usually pretty good but I'm sure some puddings grow on you lol
2016-05-21 01:50:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have judged may books by their covers ... but ONLY the kinds with 'covers' and paper with words inside. And even then the book is often 'not as advertised' but I'll read most of them anyway.
As for people ... I have my 'ideal man' ... he's tall (6'2" or over), slim (about 185 lbs) with a full head of dark hair, and a 'relatively hairless body' ... and I 'love to look at them' when I'm out. At home, I'm 'extremely happily married' to a short (5'8") fat (270 lbs) man who is bald, has a white beard, and is 'hairy as a bear' under his clothes. HE IS THE BEST MAN IN THE WORLD and treats me like I am ROYALTY ... he works, I stay at home and don't even have to do any housework , he cooks dinner after he gets home, and then he washes my back when I bathe before bed! Yes, I am 'very spoiled' and I am 'proud to brag' about my very wonderful spouse ... so, I 'thank God' I didn't 'judge a book by it's cover' when it came to 'picking the man' ... who can also pick the best books for me, even though he reads about two books a year, to my 360!
2007-05-29 10:42:25 · answer #5 · answered by Kris L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your interested in the person that is talking to you no. People will always judge a book by it's cover human nature.
2007-05-29 10:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by jeremy_112582 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely... I think everyone is guilty of it at least once or twice. The first thing you notice about someone is their physical appearance, so you kind of have to judge them by it.
I have ditched the nice, not so cute guy.... for the cute, not so nice guy a few times. Usually I end up wishing I hadn't burnt those bridges.
**Scruffycat, you're beautiful... especially with that new haircut :)**
2007-05-29 10:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anni3Ma3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't talk to people based on their attractiveness or lack thereof.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes down to the bone.
That said, I'm ugly. So it'd be pretty hypocritical, not to mention shallow, for me to talk to others based on an attractiveness factor.
2007-05-29 10:40:55 · answer #8 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I "judge a book by its cover" here, I read the partial questions and decide if I want to read it more and answer
2007-05-29 10:38:08 · answer #9 · answered by JK_JEEP 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't do that. That's disrespectful, it'll hurt the persons feelings, and I would feel very guilty if I did. I also would consider what I feel if someone did that to me I know I wouldn't like that.
Hope this answers your Q :)
2007-05-29 10:41:35 · answer #10 · answered by :^) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋