Would you trade intelligence for attractiveness?

but - if you did - who… would… turn…those…nasty…undead…and… vaporize them? trembles

PS besides, someone has to be able to talk some sense into the townsfolk… many of them dont trust pervy spell-mumblers.

But if you weren’t intelligent, how would you be smart enough to not know it? If you started out attractive and dumb that is the way you stay.

I guess I’ll use the same answer I gave to the question, “Would you rather be smart, rich, or beautiful?”

I chose smart, on the theory that if you’re smart enough, you can get rich, and with enough money, you can buy pretty!

On the other hand, if you’re rich enough, it doesn’t matter if you’re not smart or pretty.

I’ve always found it wise to trade my intelligence for pretty ladies. You work with what you have.

I’d definitely be both happier and far more effective in whatever I set out to do if I could trade some of my raw brainpower for more social confidence and a better understanding of my fellow man.

I’d rather have a good looking dumb woman than an ugly smart one.

You are getting more attractive by the minute. :smiley:

After graduation, the C students (“attractive”) get the clients then hire the A students (“intelligent”) to do the work.

There’s a balance to be struck.

So, um, how are you doi… I mean, how are you toda… Um, how is the weather? Rats. I alway get flustered around pretty girls.

Never, not because intelligence helps me be successful–I agree it’s overrated there, and charisma matters more than people like to admit–but because being intelligent is so much fun. I love being smart, being able to appriciate subtlety and complexity in the world around me, being able to understand things. I love being able to read the dope and follow what people are saying. Giving that up would hurt a thousand times worse than being ugly hurts now.

Understanding the subtlety & complexity of the world around me has been my mental/emotional undoing more than once. Mercifully, I’m now able to understand what I experience as being both black and white, and therefore neither, and so am beginning to lose my ability to understand anything at all, which means I’m either becoming more stupider and won’t have to worry about a thing in the very near future, or I’ve become too smart and am realizing that in a universe devoid of blacks and whites is found Nirvana where everything has identical meaning to everything else and hence, none at all for nothing exists in and of itself.

Probably I’m getting more stupider. But, in the process my hair is falling out, and I hear chicks dig bald guys, so I guess I’m getting attractiver.

He makes a good case for looks.

Hell, I think I’d be happier dumber whether or not I was better looking. Make me dumb enough and I’ll believe I’m attractive AND smart.

I’m pretty sure both happen. I’m also sure that not being able to do a damned thing about them isn’t so absolute - i.e. newer remedies for both are being developed every day.

As for me, I can’t answer since I’ve never felt wanting for either, but put penis size on the table and they both can go. Not that I’m hurting much there, but I always wanted a trophy penis.

I would give up intelligence for attractiveness for maybe a week. See what is like since the intelligent part isn’t really working for me. Hell I am not even sure I have the intelligent part, so I am not exactly sure what I would have to trade. :smack:

Though yea, I would give up whatever to be today’s standard of pretty cuz it sucks being society’s standard of ugly… :wink:

Yeah, me too.

so…that’s a vote for me being a hottie, then? I would prefer it. What intellect I have hasn’t served me very well.

I would gladly trade YOUR intelligence to increase MY attractiveness.

Nah, I was just being sardonic. But you might be a hottie; in fact, I’m pretty sure of it. :smiley: