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If you could design your own body and hit a button and have it immediately implemented, would you keep your natural self or would you make changes?

We'll just all assume that every person who gets this would make themselves early twenties with flawless skin, perfect organs, appendages and functionality, and no excess weight.

My question is, would you change yourself from your genetic baseline, and if so, how?

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  • As I'm trans I would change my body to align it with my gender identity. But I would love to start at an earlier age, I want the whole experience.

  • Ever since I saw Ghost in the Shell, I've wanted a full on robotic body. I'd have a few different ones to suit my mood, too. Assuming I could afford it, anyway. Which since it's a dystopian nightmare, means I probably wouldn't be able to get anything other than the shitty tank-like body and only if my insurance covered it. 😮‍💨

    Ever since I knew the weakness of my flesh, it has disgusted me...

    • Get rid of hair on my: chest, shoulder, back, belly, ass, pubic region and armpit.
    • Add 7 cm in height.
    • Get rid of whatever genetic code is making me bald.
    • Sightly bigger ass.
    • Make both my eyes be the same height, instead of one slight above the other.
    • Get rid of my asthma.
    • Better eyesight.

    Other than that it's pretty good.

  • Nightmares beyond human comprehension like something out of a video game character creator with lots of liberty but even weirder and then probably the default settings again.

  • Flesh is weak and biology sucks. I'm going to look like Atom Smasher.

  • I would flip my gender to female and ensure that my hair would match my Dad's hair color. Fix my chronic pain and IBS if I can, assuming those are genetic. Fix my singing voice. I ended up the shortest of my siblings, so double down on that and drop a few more inches off my height. I'm 5'8" now, so 5' even to 5'4" seem nice. My grandma's that height, so the code is in there somewhere.

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