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Why make people super smart....enhancing intellegence in a early age means they dont enjoy childhood as much because they must be stimulated. So i say no because everyone deserves a good childhood.. I wish I had one. I dont have to much say on this because I am only 12 so dont take my opinion to serious! 3nodding

Well, personally I think it's wrong to genetically and/or neurologically enhance human beings or any living creature for that matter.

If somehow scientists manage to find a way to enhance a person's IQ there would be repercussions. Especially in a child.

You see it in medicines now. Like the MMR shots that are given to children. Some of the kids given the shot took a turn for the worst and developed severe autism. What would happen if a doctor would purposefully alter a child's brain to make them smarter? It'd be a very risky procedure, surgery wise, and creating a pill could enhance neural activity but destroy something else in the process.

Why risk a child's livelihood and/or life for the sake of science?

And let's say that the process did work. It was a complete success and children understand let's say the laws of physics at the age of three. With great power comes great responisibility. People are corrupt, it's been that way for as long as the homo sapien species have been on this planet.

Maybe 1 out of 1000 people would use their genius to help people or the environment or whatever. And that's giving people credit a lot don't deserve.

Personally, I think enhancing the IQ of people would result in mankind's destruction.

Child prodigies are born, not made.

And if no-one had issues fitting in, society would become stagnated, no matter how smart people are, there would be no cause for them to use it.

People always have trouble fitting in, it's a part of human nature to exclude others. If everyone is intelligent, it'll become by degrees, who's the smartest or the most talented or the best looking, etc. Stagnation of society is not going to happen.

In regards to a generation of braniacs solving our problems, I think we're all forgetting that they would cause a great deal of trouble as well. Genius terrorists are much more dangerous than the garden variety. Increasing the intelligence of a peoplewon't necessarily change their attitudes unless you change the way they're brought up. That means teaching them from when they're very young to respect all people of different backgrounds, etc. Basically, we'd have to brainwash them, and that may not even work.

In short, they may advance our sciences greatly, but society isn't suddenly going to become a utopia because you've upped their IQs. If anything, the sudden change would lead to a great amount of bloodshed, either from the kids being fought over, or them fighting each other.

It is true that there will be a lag time before the rest of the world catches up with the first intelligently enhanced generation, but I doubt that the popular reaction would be negative and violent. Most likely, the change would be slow, and the numbers of genius children (which already exist) would increase gradually as more people learn about the procedure and decide to have it done. I also doubt that the first generations would have instantly 300+ IQs; they would probably be smaller increments at first.

A) I don't think you should use the term "retard." and...
2) You're missing the point that if they began enhancing intelligence (which is a long ways away), EVERYONE would be enhanced and so they would all be accepted as "normal") - Ever seen Gattica? and...
III) There's still a lot of debate over the nature v. nurture thing. I personally believe id is a combination of both, and that genetic engineering to enhance intelligence just gives you the tools--you need to be taught how to use them.

But if everyone had such IQs, don't you think that they would find ways to overcome those side effects?

Side note: Einstein couldn't do simple equations because he was incredibly bad at math, not as a drawback from being a genius Also, although I'm not too sure about how factual this is, I've heard that after some sort of testing, scientists have discovered that aside from him being ridiculously stubborn with his problems, Einstein's brain also operated about five times faster than a normal human being's. Back on topic.

I think the more important side-effects we should be worrying about are the unintended ones that arise from tinkering with DNA. We still aren't sure what each part of our genetic code does, and even if we find a way to make ourselves smarter, we may mess up the genes for something that we won't see until far down the line.