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That's a weird comparison. Yes life is unfair and everyone of us is born with some genetic privileges or disadvantages. But IQ and beauty hardly sit on the same bench.

IQ has a pretty strong correlation with the quality of the work you can produce. Higher IQ is generally beneficial to the solution of any task. If you are trying to go to Mars or find a vaccine for COVID-19, you probably want very smart people in the room. Hell, you want smart people even if you are building yet another ecommerce website.

The same is hardly true for beauty. Excluding beauty-specific jobs, skills and experience should always prevail over look.

IQ: unfair to the individual, justified by society well being Beauty: unfair to the individual, no particular advantage for society



This is under the assumption that that IQ is used for a noble cause :-)




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