Quote Originally Posted by xerxe View Post
If an ugly person — someone born with hardcoded genes that gave them recognizably ugly features — got extensive plastic surgery to look beautiful, is it still objectively correct to call this person ugly?
You make a lot of comparisons between things that don't quite fit together - idk what that is. For a more apt comparison -- someone with Down's syndrome, or William's syndrome could theoretically get plastic surgery to look as though they do not have these syndromes, but they still have those syndromes. Another example: If you have blue eyes and wear brown contact lenses, you're a blue-eyed person wearing brown contact lenses, not a brown-eyed person.

Phenotype can be disguised, but the genotype is still there.