Should Charlie have had the Intelligence Operation? From the book "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

In the story "Flowers for Algernon", the main character Charlie Gordon has an operation that triples his IQ from sixty-eight to 204. At the end of the story Charlie's IQ returns to sixty-eight. This experiment was the worst thing that ever happened to Charlie. Charlie did not have a high enough IQ to make an intelligent decision on his own, the experiment messed with Mother Nature's path of life and most of all it ruined any …

…lost his intelligence but he lost everything he had worked for before the surgery. Would you like to be a poor person and then live wealthy for two months only to have it ripped away from you and be sent back to the streets? If you were offered an all inclusive dream trip to Hawaii, airfare, hotels, food, everything covered, but you knew on your way home that the plane would crash, would you go?