Men paying thousands to get their legs broken

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Telaneo · 15h ago

I'm curious what the regret rate is. If you've gone through a very painful procedure, with pain being common for a long time after surgery, and you even need to learn how to walk again, but people still feel like their life has significantly improved just from being pushed up to slightly above height, then that doesn't say great things about how society treats these people.

If however these people feel they are treated more or less the same before and after, then it was never their height that was the problem to begin with. There's obviously a margin of error here for confirmation bias and the sunk cost fallacy, but hopefully there's some truth to be found in the numbers.

bigyabai · 15h ago

Well, there went the modicum of youthful ignorance I used to tell myself that Gattaca was just a movie and can't hurt me.

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Men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened

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