two pills - red and blue

which one would you rather be?

  • Beautiful and dumb

    Votes: 13 27.7%

  • Smart and ugly

    Votes: 34 72.3%
  • Total voters
    47
Mango Elephant

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Would you rather be an incredibly beautiful and attractive person but have an IQ of 40 and thought by everyone to be the dumbest person they've ever met. You're at the mercy of everyone you know because you have no idea what's going on around you because you're so incredibly stupid. You're really attractive and have perfect features and everyone wants to bang you. or be ...

A genius like Einstein who excels in everything intellectual you try, but you'd also be obese (500 lbs), short (4'8), and hideously ugly with wispy hair and you drool all the time and can't stop yourself. Also, you can't get healthier or get plastic surgery.

I think I'd rather be the first one but I feel bad about it.
 
I'd get a white one and do my patriotic duty. :D
 
Either choice implies a level of superficiality. Ultimately it doesn't matter if you're smart or dumb or ugly or beautiful, it just matters how well you can accept what you have.
 
You didn't say which is red and which is blue, but I'd take the red one.
 
I'd take the second one. There's a lot more to being overweight than just ugliness though, it also inhibits daily activity though, so if I had to choose between being morbidly obese of killing my intelligence entirely I'd probably rather just be dead.

Not saying, of course, that good-looking dumb people or morbidly obese brainiacs don't deserve to exist. I just wouldn't want to exist (Or wouldn't exist, rather, changing my capacity to learn would indeed change who I am) under those conditions.

If there were a "Look hideously ugly and be overweight but not so overweight as to inhibit daily activity and have an average intelligence" option I'd take that in a heartbeat.
 
Yeah, somebody an IQ of 40 has Downs, and like Mars said, wouldn't be able to consent to sex. They wouldn't even be able to live alone.
 
Well if I was 500 lbs, I'd have a very short life. And probably very unsatisfying if I was unable to be active. As much as I would hate to be that dumb, physically I'd live longer and be able to enjoy a better quality of life.
 
DroopyTofu said:
Well if I was 500 lbs, I'd have a very short life. And probably very unsatisfying if I was unable to be active. As much as I would hate to be that dumb, physically I'd live longer and be able to enjoy a better quality of life.
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You can lose weight. You can't turn around an IQ of 40. (That I know of?)
 
Zelig said:
If you're genius-smart and would rather be dead than fat, you're behaving incredibly selfishly.
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Not just "Fat." I am overweight anyways (Around 6ft 1 and 235 lbs or so.) But 4ft 8 and 500 lbs is beyond just "Fat", "Overweight" or even "Morbidly obese." I'd be literally unable to move or do anything other than think (Thanks to the genius brain.) And I'd probably even have a hard time breathing with that much weight.

If I had to choose between literally being unable to move, being literally unable to think, or going to meet Jesus, I'm taking the third option;)
 
This question has been taken to ridiculous extremes. You can't really take it seriously. Can't get healthier, can't get plastic surgery? That's totally logical and plausible.

EDIT: @Droopy

I just read that and laughed. The question is taken to such a ridiculous extreme.

However, it's always hilarious to know that people would like to become dumber then the average down syndrome kid.
 
DroopyTofu said:
No rule against studying though. ;)
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IQ is abilty to learn, not knowledge;)

Visorslash said:
This question has been taken to ridiculous extremes. You can't really take it seriously. Can't get healthier, can't get plastic surgery? That's totally logical and plausible.

EDIT: @Droopy

I just read that and laughed. The question is taken to such a ridiculous extreme.

However, it's always hilarious to know that people would like to become dumber then the average down syndrome kid.
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I can't imagine how you can really answer it. Either way I'm losing a part of who I am, whether the ability to move normally (The ugliness is besides the point, I can live with that, I'm not the handsomest in real life either although "Hideous" is probably pushing it) or my ability to think which is clearly a critical part of who I am.
 
Well, this particular iteration of the question is so far out of the borders of reality that you can't really answer it with any form of sincerity.
 
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