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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I think being intelligent gets you better jobs and more money sooo 🤷
Sorry, no, that’s not how it works, not at all.
Being intelligent doesn’t let you bypass rules one and two, or at least rule two for jobs specifically.
- Be handsome
- Be attractive
- Don’t be unattractive?
Your 2 and 3 are my 1 and 2
I want the intelligence, but could I settle for my current level of attractiveness?
If I’m that smart maybe I can work out how to make myself beautiful too.
Well how long would I have to give one of them up for?
Forever.
Easily smart and slightly below average attractiveness. It’s pretty trivial to boost your appearance by 2-3 “points” with some decent fashion choices, makeup, working out, and good grooming.
Worst case, I use my high intelligence to get a high paying job and use some of the money for plastic surgery.
Beauty I guess, intelligence doesn’t make a damn unless you’re brave, lucky, or born well
Ignorance is bliss, so I’ll take beauty. I just want to be happy.
Amen brother, beauty all the way
I’m studying engineering, so i’ll take smarts, we all know that anyone in this field ends up bald by some mystical force anyways
Too real. In the middle stages of my career I am fighting a losing battle against this plight.
Probably smart, because I’m already pretty smart and the prospect of giving up what I already have seems scary.
Plus, I’ve lived most of my life thinking I was repulsively ugly; part of overcoming that anxiety involved understanding that “you can be the juiciest, ripest peach in the world, but some people just don’t like peaches”. If there’s anything I’ve learned from that, it’s understanding that attractiveness is even harder to “objectively” quantify than intelligence
I would rather be beautiful because then I wouldn’t realize everyone else around me is so unfathomably stupid.
To quote Ron White: You can’t fix stupid.
You could be Hermann Rorschach or Hedy Lamarr, and be both!
Hermann looks like a Hollywood actor
Those people definitely aren’t below average attractiveness.
That guy really looks like Bradd Pitt
Brad Pitt was one of the first people to try the time travel machine invented in 2030; however when attempting to make a career by introducing 21st century technology in the early 1900s, the only thing he could manage to reproduce was ink blots and folding paper.
I can work on my intelligence but I can’t work on my genetics. So, if take physical attractiveness.
I’m an introvert so I’m going for very intelligent.
I am already both, so I would tell that genie to EAT ITTTT
I pick the grilled cheese sandwich.
