Poll: Would you trade intelligence for attractiveness?

[Mikeyfell]

This is an interesting question.
Would I trade a life long hopeless depression where the only brief escape from the miserable monotony of existence is when I dream about savagely stabbing myself to death with a ballpoint pen, for the only currency that is universally valued by today's culture?

I would trade my intelligence for leprosy.

Did you ever see the episode of The Simpsons where Homer got the crayon taken out of his brain?

But you're asking if we want to be attractive as well as stupid.
So I'd basically be the toast of the town and too dumb to realize how shallow and pointless that is.

The 245 people that value intelligence are already attractive or stupid and they don't know what they're getting in to.

 

[Emz]

Can I not just trade 5% of my intelligence for a really good metabolism? I'd then be happy.

 

[Ildecia]

i like the graph, and it makes the most sense to me. so yeah.

that.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

What is "dumber"? That's a little vague, no? I mean, do i just lose knowledge, i.e. forget stuff? Cause then I'm down with a little prettying up (I look pretty horrendous)

Or do you mean i lose my ability to reason and think analytically? To reason, and shit?
Cause if it's that....then no. Hell no!

 

[Lazier Than Thou]

Ecclesiastes 1:18

"For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

Make me stupid so I can be happy for a freakin' change. I don't care if I'm pretty or not.

 

[robincb]

I just might, my intelligence makes my life harder, i think too much on things, i can't fall asleep because i can't stop thinking, i think about things everyone around me tell me they don't care about, it has made me lazy cause i've never had to do a damn thing for school, just a slight decrease might make me able to interact with people of lower intelligence better......... then again i might lose my ability to analyze people to a certain point.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Depends, do I have a choice in %'s? Such as, only giving a dash of intelligence, for a dash of beauty? Such as the disappearance of some of my knowledge of useless facts. Can I adjust it?

Or is it a: WHAM beautiful!!
Then I end up on t.v. asking if I'm eating Chicken or Tuna, sort of thing?

 

[veloper]

Attractiveness also attracts shit; good looks are not selective.

Aslong as you're not hideously ugly, better looks don't help much for a guy. Dressing smartly and keeping clean is far more important.

 

[Cursed Frogurt]

I probably would. I mean, aren't dumb people REALLY easily entertained? Imagine how much easier life would be!

 

[GameMaNiAC]

I like being a witty bastard, so... I'd rather not choose attractiveness.

 

[Leg End]

Brilliance.

Indeed.

OT: Heeeeelllllllllllll no. I am perfectly fine looking like a hairy man beast, thank you very much.

[sub]Though, it scares Lolis away... I might shave.[/sub]

 

[emptyother]

Id rather trade my remaining attractiveness (it aint much, but it is something) for more intelligence.

Though it would probably be fun to have so little intelligence that i didnt care...

 

[C95J]

yes, because I would rather be happy with someone else than intelligent.

 

[Baldry]

Thankfully I'm already a sex god, so no need to worry about this for me, but if I was seriously ugly I would consider it.

 

[The Funslinger]

Well I'm intelligent enough, and apparently I look just like my dad (but with brown hair instead of black) and apparently he is/was quite good looking (I have no opinion) so I don't see the need to improve. I don't really judge myself, but a couple of compliments have been tossed my way. Though a friend of mine does occasionally mock minor flaws to make himself feel better about his own looks (which he openly complains about) so my self esteem does take a kicking on a regular basis.

 

[AudienceOfOne1]

Attractiveness only gets you so far. Where as if it was charisma in exchange for some intelligence, then hell yeah I would.

 

[Kroxile]

No, for two reasons.

1. I am already quite handsome irl. *toots own horn*
2. Trading intelligence for looks just isn't a very intelligent thing to do and I daresay anyone who would make such a trade didn't have much in the way of smarts to begin with.

 

[Nova Helix]

Intelligence is attractiveness. Case and point, this man had at least one affair and was a heart throb.

 

[The King of Rock and Roll]

What if I already have both?