[jpttsn]

Maybe I don’t get it, but it does not seem surprising that something happens to be beautiful?

Is there some reason that this something should not to be flowers?

Is there some assumption that all things should be equally pretty absent special reason?

Why are stones not beautiful? Why is grass sort of meh in between?

Why is the rib-eye the tastiest part of the cow? Well, some part has to be tastiest. Why not the rib-eye?

[wmeredith]

You're conflating the question of "why is this thing beautiful?" with "why is anything beautiful"?

[jpttsn]

Not really conflating. The original question just seems stupid/meaningless and it’s meta fascinating that people apparently attach something to it.

Things look different. Some things look better than others. Among the things that look best are flowers. There’s nothing else particularly interesting about flowers.

Among all the various things in the universe, some will look good and others will look bad. Or they’d all look the same, I guess, which they don’t. So given that, flowers looking good is not something that requires an explanation?

What other questions are like this? I’m trying to figure out what perspective I’m not seeing.

- why is the Pacific the largest ocean? - why is X star the brightest in the sky? - why do dogs bark?

Suppose I a few dice, and one of them happens to show the highest number. Would you ask “why is this dice so high?”