[@POOHEAD189] [quote]The first trait is arguable and the other two traits are generalities.[/quote] This statement is so vague I struggle to find your intended meaning. "[b]The world is round[/b]" "[i]That's arguable[/i]" "[b]Humans have four limbs[/b]" "[i]That's a generality[/i]" Everything is arguable Poohead. And generalities are a linguistic expression of an average, frequency distribution or rate of change. A trend. [quote]A. It's the norm, not a low percentage. But I never said I want them to be ugly. [/quote] So the 'norm' for people who are considered unattractive is to become more intelligent, develop stronger character and find true love more frequently than those who are considered attractive? [quote]B. No one said to make them ugly. But even if that were the case, that's my point. This is their life, and do I want them to have a higher percentage chance of being mature and having character or do I want them to have 'facial symmetry.' [/quote] So just to be clear.. unattractiveness = better chance of being 'mature'? [quote]C. You...what? You doubt... how. As in you think it's impossible? Do you really hold physical appearance at such a high standard that you cannot fathom someone loving someone else romantically for their personality? I'm not actually assuming this of you but I don't know how else to take that.[/quote] You have completely lost me here. I doubt that the hardships that come with unattractiveness make people into kinder or more intelligent people and I strongly doubt that it does anything positive for their chances of finding true love. I mean have you seen /r/incels? [quote]Simply using it as an example. Difficulties are good. Parents not making things too easy for a child helps them grow. Then again, while difficulties are good, so is healthy choices. Which is just one more reason why I don't want to touch genetics other than halting diseases. [/quote] So your premise is that struggle against life's hardships makes one a better person and by increasing the amount of hardships our children face we can make them into better people? Excellent. We can look at the world and find cases were one group of people is faced with a hardship while another group has it easy and we can see if the people who are faced with these hardships are more mature, more intelligent and more likely to find meaningful love than the people who have it easy. This shouldn't be too challenging; after all today we have entire countries filled with people whose lives are waking nightmares. If your theory holds true they should be saints with intellect and virtue to shame Gandi! But we don't have to get so extreme. After all there are plenty of places in the world that are not awful, just disadvantaged compared to other people in the same region. And if your theory is correct those disadvantaged people should be more intelligent, more mature and more likely to find happiness with a romantic partner. Do you think that is what we are going to find when we compare the populations of 'hardshipped' and the so called 'privileged'?