DISCUSSION 
whose intricacy is as yet unknown, will not be harmed more 
than helped by such a change? For example, most criminals 
now are rather stupid. Are we quite sure that by raising the 
I.Q. of the population all round we won’t create new problems 
by increasing the brightness of the average criminal? All sorts 
of complex factors are involved. If any one of us had devised 
a mechanism as complex as the situation of the human race, 
how would we feel about letting any of our colleagues monkey 
about with it, on the assumption that they knew as little about 
it as we know about the psychosocial mechanism ? 
Comfort: I still feel a little despairing at hearing this 
gathering continue to confuse intelligence with what I would 
call adjustment in personality. We wouldn’t do at all well with 
a population consisting solely of people with a very high I.Q. 
who were also maladjusted or even psychotic. 
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