Nowadays, society has always valued beauty. In literature, attractiveness often symbolizes an admirable protagonist, while ugliness indicates the abominable antagonist. As children we are taught, without even realizing it, to prize beauty. People of every race and culture have gone to extremes in the name of beauty from foot-binding in China, to dangerously constricting corsets in Victorian times, to nose jobs in 800 B.C. India. Moreover, the human body makes no distinction when the scalpel hits and the difference with elective cosmetic surgeries is that patients generally start out being healthy.