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Question 21 Verbal and Logical Ability 2024 Medium MCQ +1.00 marks · -0.25 negative

Beauty has an aesthetic, but it is not the same as aesthetics, not when it can be embodied, controlled by powerful interests, and when it can be commodified. Beauty can be manners, also a socially contingent set of traits. Whatever power decides that beauty is, it must always be…

Based on the passage, which of the following BEST explains beauty to be simultaneously a "blessing" and a "site of conversion?"

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