"But I'm beautiful INside!"

Your ethics quiz today involves the dating site beautifulpeople.com, which is in the news for culling 30,000 applicants from its rolls because they were just too darn ugly for a site that promises qualified members that they can…

•  “Connect with beautiful men and women in your local area and from around the world!”
• “Chat live with other beautiful men and women!”
• “Meet REAL beautiful people who actually look in real life as they do online!”
• “Attend exclusive parties and events!”
• “Be discovered!”
• “Be part of the largest most exclusively beautiful community in the world!”
• “Browse beautiful profiles of men and women without sifting through all the riff raff!”

Last month,  Beautifulpeople.com suffered a cyber attack in which the Shrek virus, named after the popular animated troll, disabled the software that screens applicants, allowing an invasion of new, troll-like members, or at least members not up to Beautiful People standards. Continue reading →