Worth showing?
Choices
As I select candies to display on this site, I decide which ones are worth showing, and which are not. Some internal "above the bar" judgement is made.
Do they need to be deformed "since birth," or do those damaged during shipping count? How big does a blemish need to be to be worth showing? What if just a painted-on "m" is amiss, and nothing else?
Hard to think of a catchy phrase … Skip!
By making these decisions, I am choosing which are worthy, and which are not, which is somewhat against the idea of this site.
Alright, but only because it looks kinda like a macaroon.
This site is supposed to be drawing attention to those that fall by the wayside. But by doing so, we just creating a new class of priviliged candies, and now the others are neglected.
It is a sort of reverse-descrimination.
weak
To really live the philosophy touted here, I should accept all candies, no matter how they look. That would be a truer display of variety.
Ironically, in order to describe a better way to act, I do the opposite.
But it is not merely "affirmative action for candies" happening here; I am not choosing these for display solely because they would otherwise be disadvantaged.
As mentioned earlier, we are trying to appreciate intrinsic qualities.
And the more funny lookin', the better.
So I am trying to find candies that are outstanding in their own ways, and the nature of this site means that I look for those with a certain visual impact to get that across.
Another point: we generally carry around with us some default notions of "good," "beautiful," etc, often without thinking about them. Here, we deliberately choose different such notions. In some other context, the rules could be rewritten yet again.
There are many sets of rules to choose from, and the ones we use when we're on autopilot are not necessarily the best in all cases.
It's not that arbitrary value judgements are to be abolished, but they should be recognized for what they are. Here, we choose some that are hopefully a little unusual, to encourage you to broaden your mind.
It is my own failing that I cannot always find and/or communicate interesting details for every case (though I don't doubt they exist), and so I must pick and choose the ones that are amenable to my purposes.
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