So, lets play pretend. 
 
You are in the best health of your life. You have no conditions and your heredity shows you are not at risk for anything major. You're well fit and have excellent reflexes. You are smart, and pretty much the ideal human. As close as a human could get. Yep, a human.
 
But, what if you could be more. What if you could be augmented. You've been tested, and you have a incredibly high chance of accepting the augmentations with little issues. But....would you do it.
 
Would you give up basically your humanity, your 'purity' to become something more then a man was ever intended to do. Extend you life close to immortality. Stronger, faster, smarter, more capable then any other human could be. 
 
Let ignore for a moment the whole government controlling you, the drug addiction, and various other issues that are brought up in Dues Ex: Human Revolution. This is strictly a human vs. augmentation contemplation. So, would you remove yourself from humanity to become something....different, but possibly greater?
 
As for me, if I was in that situation, yes. Even if you included all those other factors (gov, drugs, etc). I still do it, if only for my chance to live longer and see what the world will become.

This sounds like something from Transmetropolitan.

So no.

You make it sound like I would become Geralt The Witcher, which is a pretty easy choice for me.

Do they have all feeling in their augmentations?

@Yorick said:

Do they have all feeling in their augmentations?

I no longer approve of where this thread is going...

"Give up your humanity". What does that even mean? Does someone in a wheelchair give up their humanity? What about someone with a prosthetic leg? These are people using technology to improve the quality of their lives. If the technology existed that would increase performance far beyond the norm, then why shouldn't someone do it?

I see no moral problem with such augmentations. It only comes down to weighing the pros and the cons.

Unless I was a soldier I would see little need for physical improvements, but if I could safely implant a chip in my head that would improve my mental function? Absolutely I would do it. Imagine downloading a foreign language and instantly being able to speak like a native speaker. That would be amazing.

@Yorick said:

Do they have all feeling in their augmentations?

I no longer approve of where this thread is going...

I would rather play spin the bottle.

@Claude: Playing spin the bottle is preferable to becoming the Six Million Dollar Man??

I should play spin the bottle more, I guess...

@jorbear said:

@Claude: Playing spin the bottle is preferable to becoming the Six Million Dollar Man??

I should play spin the bottle more, I guess...

It's either Spin the Bottle or Truth or Dare. And Truth or Dare is a girl's game.

would i do it? IT?

@Yorick said:

Do they have all feeling in their augmentations?

This is basically the same concern I have about this. You need a lot of...I'm tired...nervecells? to be able to feel any sort of touch, if I can't feel my arms or legs then that would be pretty lame (Oh, a pun!).

And if I could, would I even want to? with them being so hard it would probably feel pretty weird. Maybe if they were made up of plastics with synthetic skin or something, but that still seems like it would require more maintence than my regular arms that just autorenew themselves.

I say pass.

Nope, living longer than normal doesn't sound appealing to me.

i'd do it.  Why not.

@McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

"Give up your humanity". What does that even mean? Does someone in a wheelchair give up their humanity? What about someone with a prosthetic leg? These are people using technology to improve the quality of their lives. If the technology existed that would increase performance far beyond the norm, then why shouldn't someone do it?

I see no moral problem with such augmentations. It only comes down to weighing the pros and the cons.

Unless I was a soldier I would see little need for physical improvements, but if I could safely implant a chip in my head that would improve my mental function? Absolutely I would do it. Imagine downloading a foreign language and instantly being able to speak like a native speaker. That would be amazing.

Pretty much what this guy said.

Don't let Hollywood and Christian/Purist propaganda cloud your judgment. There is no such thing as "giving up" your humanity. Your body does not make you human; your conscience and memories do. As long as those are intact, and I still look humanoid, then hell yeah, I would augment the fuck out of myself.

"Give up your humanity". What does that even mean? Does someone in a wheelchair give up their humanity? What about someone with a prosthetic leg? These are people using technology to improve the quality of their lives. If the technology existed that would increase performance far beyond the norm, then why shouldn't someone do it?

I see no moral problem with such augmentations. It only comes down to weighing the pros and the cons.

Unless I was a soldier I would see little need for physical improvements, but if I could safely implant a chip in my head that would improve my mental function? Absolutely I would do it. Imagine downloading a foreign language and instantly being able to speak like a native speaker. That would be amazing.

@McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

"Give up your humanity". What does that even mean? Does someone in a wheelchair give up their humanity? What about someone with a prosthetic leg? These are people using technology to improve the quality of their lives. If the technology existed that would increase performance far beyond the norm, then why shouldn't someone do it?

I see no moral problem with such augmentations. It only comes down to weighing the pros and the cons.

Unless I was a soldier I would see little need for physical improvements, but if I could safely implant a chip in my head that would improve my mental function? Absolutely I would do it. Imagine downloading a foreign language and instantly being able to speak like a native speaker. That would be amazing.

Pretty much what this guy said.

Don't let Hollywood and Christian/Purist propaganda cloud your judgment. There is no such thing as "giving up" your humanity. Your body does not make you human; your conscience and memories do. As long as those are intact, and I still look humanoid, then hell yeah, I would augment the fuck out of myself.

I want a dong that's 7 feet long

Hell yeah I'd do it, never get sick or hurt, live for millennia and think as fast as a computer, why the hell not?

Fuck humanity. I'll take the superpowers.

Sure I would do it as long as I could still feel and my dick remains the same.

Yes.
 
My eyes.

I'd do it, just as long as my personality remains intact.

Humanity, or speedy robot legs? Hmm...

I want a dong that's 7 feet long

Electric spinning boner.

If i was in good health, then i would not need any Augs.

Hell yes, in a heartbeat.
 
@byterunner said:

@Yorick said:

Do they have all feeling in their augmentations?

I'd assume, though, maybe not.

You make it sound like I would become Geralt The Witcher, which is a pretty easy choice for me.

Only if no one else could. All of those abilities are worthless if everyone has them.

No, i wouldn't.

Sign me the hell up!  Hydraulic muscles and steel skin.  I want to look like something from James Cameron's worst nightmare.

@ryanwho said:

I want a dong that's 7 feet long

You can have half of mine then if you want (no homo).

Nope.

I would dig being superhumanly strong and fast, but not living longer.

@ryanwho said:

I want a dong that's 7 feet long

i got what u need bb

Robot appendages seem like they could malfunction and kill me pretty quickly; I'll just stick with being a genius at the peak of physical ability. Because that's pretty awesome by itself.

Fuck yes. 
FUCK YES.

@jorbear said:

You make it sound like I would become Geralt The Witcher, which is a pretty easy choice for me.

His example already makes you the Witcher in the first place.

I would just so I could say to the 'augment-attacher' people that I want my human arm back.

Extend my lifespan? Nope. Have parts of my body replaced with advanced machinery? Why the hell not. 

  You're well fit 

Why, thank you very much.

But I would not be transhumanist. I am a man.... not a machine. Machines and automatons are my enemies. I shall not lessen the human form by compromising with alternative enhancements. I shall not be controlled. I shall not be chipped. I am a but one man, but what a man.

 @ryanwho said:

I want a dong that's 7 feet long

yeah boy

Nah, i would only augment myself if i actually had a defect like a amputated limb or bad eye sight and hearing.  

Under those conditions you described, hell naw.

Nope.

But I would not be transhumanist. I am a man.... not a machine. Machines and automatons are my enemies. I shall not lessen the human form by compromising with alternative enhancements. I shall not be controlled. I shall not be chipped. I am a but one man, but what a man.