Are smart pills a good idea?

I know a bunch of folks that need 'em.

The brain is an organ. One thing it shares with most other organs of the body is that it isn't fully understand by medical science. Understood more today than in the past, yes. Totally understand, no. If you look honestly at all of the performance enhancing drugs their are detrimental side effects. Maybe we should do more research into improving skills without artificially inducing them.

I don't see anything wrong with trying to get the full potential out of your body. Look at athletes of today and compare them to yesteryear. They are faster, stronger, heal quicker, have higher endurance and thats thanks to science. If you could figure out a way to help humans hear better or see further and clearer, wouldn't you do it. If you could give a child a shot that ensures that nothing from cancer and HIV to the common cold could ever make them ill wouldn't it be unethical not to give that child such a shot? So max out the brain. We are barely scratching the surface of everything our mind can do and since it's a muscle it will expand as we challenge it. So challenge the shit out of it so we can see where humans will end up.

Lets see... I knew I had something I was going to say. Oh yea....

All this healthy lifestyles stuff that's been touted the last decade or so has basically one goal, as I see it. The idea is to give your body what it needs and to stop giving it what it doesn't.

This is probably good. I pay no attention to it at all. I smoke. I eat sweets. I eat eggs. I drink alcohol when it suits me. Smoke pot if I can find it and afford it. Don't insist on salads with my meals. Eat meat. This just off the top of my head.

I've developed some weird attitudes because of it. I'm tired of being discriminated against because I smoke. I'm tired of "healthy" people feeling superior that are no more healthy than I am. I'm tired of people telling me about the cholesterol in eggs when humans have been eating them for 10,000 years. Silly stuff like that. If this attitute kills me, you can make me a case in point.

Brain pills? If I could take one and be a genius, OK. If it's just going to make me more alert, another hour in the sack will do that. (or another cup of coffee) If this will boost my natural capability, that's one thing. If it's merely going to allow me to utilize what I already have, I'll pass. I know how to do that without drugs.

Once they're sure what they're talking about I'll consider it again. Till then; pass the sugar please.

Caffeine is good for doing all those things that you don't want to do, backburner stuff and the like. But like any other drug, the key is "use in moderation"