I saw recently people get into an argument. A person had posted a story annoyed because they had to move a bunch of wheelbarrows to show a specific one to a customer and the customer decided they didn't like the way it looked and chose not to buy it.

The argument though was about whether a person should be "allowed" to look for aesthetics when shopping for a tool. It was pointed out that shoes, clothes, cars, houses, etc are all tools with a functional purpose that is primary and yet we don't decide people aren't allowed to care how those things look.

In fact in many of those things we as a society actively mock anyone who doesn't care what those things look like. Personally I don't mind if someone doesn't assign value to how a car looks. I don't myself. I think most of the best looking cars also tend to have the least real world functionality. However I don't mock and judge those who do.

The argument though again was that those are different things that there are tools you're allowed to find aesthetics important and tools that you're not. Even though neither will need those aesthetics to do the job.

I don't understand why people can't just accept that different people value different things?