There would certainly be no less reproduction, if cosmetics are given up.
Also no general health loss, probably even improvements, with no more side effects. (and no more apes tortured to death by trying to remove the side effects)
From my point of view, cosmetics is about lying to each other, how we really look ... so you could argue, that it would be even better for the best genes to be choosen, if the real informations are not hidden and falsified with makeup etc
Yes, of course it is meant to maximize the potential of the individual ... but that doesnt mean it is useful from a objective view, meaning is it useful to humanity as a whole.
(The whole discussion is a theoretical "wouldn't it be nice if" ...)
For example we value clean skin ... maybe because people with clean skin are probably less likely to get skin cancer ... but with cosmetics people are just hiding their not perfect skin ... and maybe even improve their chances of skin cancer with side effects.
So from a idealistic point of view, I think it would be better to accept that most of us don't have perfect clean skin, so what? Where is the point in spending so much effort in hiding it?
There would certainly be no less reproduction, if cosmetics are given up. Also no general health loss, probably even improvements, with no more side effects. (and no more apes tortured to death by trying to remove the side effects)
From my point of view, cosmetics is about lying to each other, how we really look ... so you could argue, that it would be even better for the best genes to be choosen, if the real informations are not hidden and falsified with makeup etc