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We've had purely cosmetic surgery for decades. Is this any different than a boob job or lip implants or hair plugs? It's more painful, sure, and irreversible, but is it morally different because of that?
> but is it morally different because of that? Yes, because it's more painful and irreversible.
At 5'9 Im comfortable with my average height. Sure, had I been taller Id probably be perceived differently but these are things that cannot be changed (till now). Since I'm comfortable with my height I rarely think about this but I'm sure shorter guys may have it more on their mind than I do. Im genuinely curious though, with extending the length of the femur, wouldn't that make the body change proportions? Aren't ta…
Does your height vary much? /joke
They could give teens growth hormone instead. I guess now that late adolescent gender transitions are becoming accepted, and since they already give growth hormone to little people, that's the next step.
Fascinating and somewhat shocking phenomenon. I was under impression that length would be the only aspect of humans that can’t be altered - turns out that was wrong.
"Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone." -Mary Schmich
At 5'9 Im comfortable with my average height. Sure, had I been taller Id probably be perceived differently but these are things that cannot be changed (till now). Since I'm comfortable with my height I rarely think about this but I'm sure shorter guys may have it more on their mind than I do. Im genuinely curious though, with extending the length of the femur, wouldn't that make the body change proportions? Aren't ta…
It is a little annoying to be elbowed in the nose accidentally by my Dutch customers, though. So, I created a joke. “Why are people in the Netherlands so tall?” “Genetic pressure. They have had occasional dike failures over the centuries, and the short ones drowned.”
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> but is it morally different because of that? Yes, because it's more painful and irreversible.
This sentiment with respect to radical medical transformations is not well received in certain online communities...
> According to a 2009 study of Australian men, short guys make less money than their taller peers (about $500 a year per inch); are less likely to climb the corporate ladder (according to one survey, the average height of a male Fortune 500 CEO is six feet); and, for the cis and straight among us, have fewer romantic opportunities with women (a 2013 study conducted in the Netherlands found that women were taller than…
Until we solve the inter gender pay gap, I'm not really interest in the intra gender height gap.
They could give teens growth hormone instead. I guess now that late adolescent gender transitions are becoming accepted, and since they already give growth hormone to little people, that's the next step.
Growth hormone has amazing qualities, but as it stimulates the liver to produce IGF-1, it has to be taken together with drugs that deregulate IGF-1 and under supervision. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.13028
After my divorce, I dove into the hetero online dating community and discovered that many men lie about their height in their online profile. This is more common among men because many women do in fact want a taller man. Similarly, men and women both often lie about their age in order to help their profile sneak around age filters used by others. But the lying about height is pathetic and always backfires, often spec…
Most men show up 1 or 2 inches shorter. Even tall men.[1]
[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/thebigliespeop...