On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 10:17 -0700, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
> Function determines (or ought to determine) form! Beauty in craft is
> not cosmetic but comes from good (= intelligent: proper ratio of means
> to ends) design, which obviously means, "design for the given
> purpose."

That may well be your religion, but it is not a universal Truth.  

All welded joints are not equally beautiful: I've seen plenty of
perfectly satisfactory weld joints that looked as though they were
caulked with dog feces smeared on with a popsicle stick.  

What's more, paint has but one functional purpose, to protect the
underlying surface from the elements.  Unattractive colors, blobs,
orange peel, all serve the function equally well, but it is absurd to
claim they are all equally beautiful because of that.



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