I like the idea that your dials must total ten,
leaving tough choices

What if the dials were for you, not your future child. Suppose like Cliff you are already at 9.8 on the intelligence dial. What do you do to enhance your career? If you are a scientist, you go for 9.9 in intelligence. If you are a politician, which way do you turn the dial?

My observation on humans has led me to expect most people would put both dials at 10, and then next year start complaining that the dials don't go to 11.

Humans strive for perfection in all forms of aptitude and beauty... physical, emotional, intellectual... etc. The question is answered everyday by your own actions, what numbers do you strive for (which numbers are you comfortable with). By nature of having children you further proliferate that desire to improve. Life is the journey of striving for that perfection... you make the choices as to what that perfection is. The arguements I have seen so far are that 10/10 is accepted to be the ultimate settings... whos to say some other combination is not the more "perfect"?

some of the severly handicapped people may have an intellegence far above & beyond our own . all thats needed is a translation bridge built so we can meet in the middle.

Let's say that the total of both dials could be 15. What would you choose? How does gender affect your choice? The sad truth is that our culture still favors "beautiful" women and "successful" men. What those mean is subjective, but you'd better believe that if there was a way, I'd set the dials. Perhaps prayer is the closest we get to controlling the dials.

well considering I get a 10 and a 10.. I could only hope to pass that on to my kids....:p

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getting my masters in international policies and development... spending time overseas with engineers without borders.

I think, if I had such dials, I would turn the intelligence dial to 8 and the beauty dial to 6.

I knew a genius who had great difficulty both in his own psyche and with the "world out there".

I've known way too many "beautiful people" who have been evaluated according to their "looks alone".

I guess, upon self analysis, it's interesting to me that I see the potential "flaws" in both great beauty and massive intellect. Maybe because I've had some training in The Lutheran Church? ;-)

Without having any idea of the likely consequences of twiddling these dials the whole exercise would be a crap shoot, one subject to the randomness of nature but driven by ego-centered desires to manipulate events to our satisfaction. I think we have enough of that already. So I would toss the dials into an incinerator and let nature and (hopefully) good parenting have their shot.

I feel that the dial dilema puts a limit on the potential for either based on our capactiy as humans. I don't feel that there is an inert cap on knowledge and inteligence, because as knowledge increases, there is more recognizable knowledge in the world.

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