In the story, Flowers for Algernon, there was an interesting question, should doctors perform intelligence enhancing operations on a person’s brain? I believe the answer is “No”. If I was a doctor I would be against it.
I am against this because it is a big risk. The more experiments the more death. Like in the story Flowers for Algernon, there was a man, named Charlie and a mouse named Algernon, that both had this disgraceful operation. But, when they did think it was successful it was done with them – at the end they both died.
Another reason I would be very against this is, your personality will be changing, and you have more advantage on people. Then people will be confused and scared of you. They will stay as far of you as they can. Then like Charlie, and Algernon, you will be confused and lonely. No one around you will make you feel better. And before you know it you will be so confused, that you will be disappointed in yourself.
My last reason why I wouldn’t agree with this operation is, if every person wanted an enhancing operation then the world will be so dull and the same. We will all be isolated, life would be so boring if everyone is the same, and then there is no need to have the word “smart”. And in schools there is no differentiate also, some kids wouldn’t have a gift any more, they will be all the same. It wouldn’t be fair to the real smart gifted kids that study so hard and they found out others got surgery to be smart.
Even though people may think that getting this surgery is great, I think it’s not, because will you be willing enough to risk your life on science or so called “success operation”? People may think, it helps with finding helpful ways to cure deadly diseases, but what about your loving, caring, and like a souvenir, life? Is science or life the answer? There are many thrills in life but this is a serious one.
After all, I convinced you, you should at least be a little intimidated. I know that this is a big risk for your life and people around you that love you. I wish I convinced or proved to you my disagreement. I hope you think about human species in the future and how lonely it will be. However, we need to save the nature. The nature made us, he wanted us to be different, and he wanted us to learn the world by our self: to be happy, to be humor, to be sad, not use the surgery. You should respect yourself and others around you, and most of all your life.