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Right. I understand that part. Same reason why professional cyclists wear helmets. Helmets slow you down a bit but everyone would rather wear one for safety

Right. I understand that part. Same reason why professional cyclists wear helmets. Helmets slow you down a bit but everyone would rather wear one for safety even if they wouldn't because they would take the risk for a better chance of winning. Still thats not quite my question. Getting braces for your teeth seems to be ok. Some people are uncomfortable with breast implants while others think they're great (insert your own joke here). What about surgery to make you smarter? In my gut that seems wrong but I'm not sure why.

noonespecial 18y ago
It doesn't seem wrong to me. Surgery to give you 20/20 vision = OK, Surgery to give you 145 IQ = not ok?? Why? How about an expensive piece of optical machinery the rich can wear on their faces to give them good vision? All of the arguments I can come up with for not allowing the smart surgery/drugs (like it will benefit only the rich, wouldn't be fair etc,) fail on the "Lasik test". I take this to mean that its simply a cultural taboo now and will soon be seen as a curious, archaic belief from the distant past.
- keating 18y ago
  > Surgery to give you 20/20 vision = OK, Surgery to give you 145 IQ = not ok?? Why? In my case, both would be downgrades.
  - noonespecial 18y ago
    Surgery to implant a modicum of tact, humility, and social grace?
    - keating 18y ago
      Surgery to implant a sense of humor?
- jonnytran 18y ago
  > Surgery to give you 20/20 vision = OK, Surgery to give you 145 IQ = not ok?? I think the main difference here is that we understand (for the most part) how the eye works, but we don't understand the brain. It's orders of magnitude more complicated, so we don't understand all the effects.
roundbrackets 18y ago
"Right. I understand that part. Same reason why professional cyclists wear helmets." But this is simply not true. As a person who follows the sport of cycling I know that many professional cyclists will use helmets only during races (because they are required to), during training they won't.

noonespecial 18y ago

It doesn't seem wrong to me. Surgery to give you 20/20 vision = OK, Surgery to give you 145 IQ = not ok?? Why? How about an expensive piece of optical machinery the rich can wear on their faces to give them good vision? All of the arguments I can come up with for not allowing the smart surgery/drugs (like it will benefit only the rich, wouldn't be fair etc,) fail on the "Lasik test". I take this to mean that its simply a cultural taboo now and will soon be seen as a curious, archaic belief from the distant past.

keating 18y ago
> Surgery to give you 20/20 vision = OK, Surgery to give you 145 IQ = not ok?? Why? In my case, both would be downgrades.
- noonespecial 18y ago
  Surgery to implant a modicum of tact, humility, and social grace?
  - keating 18y ago
    Surgery to implant a sense of humor?
jonnytran 18y ago
> Surgery to give you 20/20 vision = OK, Surgery to give you 145 IQ = not ok?? I think the main difference here is that we understand (for the most part) how the eye works, but we don't understand the brain. It's orders of magnitude more complicated, so we don't understand all the effects.

roundbrackets 18y ago

"Right. I understand that part. Same reason why professional cyclists wear helmets." But this is simply not true. As a person who follows the sport of cycling I know that many professional cyclists will use helmets only during races (because they are required to), during training they won't.