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Would you rather be smart, or beautiful? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A genie appears before you and says you must choose to be very physically attractive, but slightly below average intelligence, or very intelligent, but slightly below average attractiveness? Which would you choose, and why?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well how long would I have to give one of them up for?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Forever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Smart because if I ever started getting into making videos for my fictional P²EMG company, would needs the smarts to make a v-Tuber model of my fursona work, alongside some other tools I won't disclose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There are other variables the genie leaves wildcard.

Suppose I'm already very intelligent and attractive (and modest), except I'm also a wimp, myopic, have weird metabolism, autistic and with bipolar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Can I so intelligent as to quickly figure out how to CRISPR-Cas9 my looks or does tge wish prevent me from changing my appearance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Intelligence can be attractive too! And even in the cases where it's not, I think I can always go for surgery or something if it's really that bad.

Intelligence can be learnt, but it's much harder than say, correcting one's facial features or getting into shape imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe it would be a more difficult choice if it was between Intelligence or Constitution (i.e. physical health)

[–] Appoxo 1 points 5 months ago

Not beautiful anyway. I'll take the smarts

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I can work on my intelligence but I can't work on my genetics. So, if take physical attractiveness.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Smart with a top 1% cock.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The genie does not honor your second wish.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Only dudes and weird chicks online seem to care about this metric lol

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