I imagine that to be a stunningly beautiful young woman is similar to the experience of being a Hollywood celebrity. And not manifest sour grapes, but to slowly lose that beauty over time must be difficult.
the interesting follow up question would be: Are beautiful people more moral?<p>There certainly can be a reinforcement effect: If the world is nice to you, you are nice to the world. However, if you notice that the world is nice to you for no good reason (like your looks), you might abuse this, e.g. you take things for granted (e.g. people doing stuff for you) that you should not.
However, I'd bet most studies that would try to find out if beautiful people are more or less moral, couldn't be reproduced since there are way too many things that might affect this.
I always had to work more to impress people in interviews than some of my better looking friends. Doubly so for dating, this should be no surprise people are biased towards genetic fitness as are all animals
The author of the article clearly doesn't get it. They say "8- to 12-year-old children evaluate harms more severely when they are directed toward more attractive animals." and then tries to explain that with "beauty is pleasurable". Sorry, it has nothing to do with that.<p>We are genetically conditioned to be attracted to beauty, to equal beauty with health, and good genes. We choose beautiful mates in effort to maximize our children's chances of survival. The fact that we also like pretty animals, and everything else described in the article, is just a side effect of that.