Subject: Is this really a fight you want to have?
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Posted on: 2019-06-30 02:02:00 UTC

Because that's a pretty hair-thin distinction you're drawing. If the concept of transhumanism (defined, as I understand it, as humans being augmented in any way by any technology) is being portrayed as "unclean," that assumes that there is such a thing as a "pure human" to begin with, which is plenty messed up with or without explicitly bringing sex and gender into it. Who decides what's a "pure human," eh? Based on what criteria? This is how we get that one episode of Babylon 5 where we learn an organic AI (not even a wholly mechanical one!) slaughtered an entire species because no one 100% fit the impossible standard of purity it was programmed to protect.

Or, more likely, such a thing would take its standards from the privileged elite with the power and resources to create it, and any part of society with less privilege would be wiped out because the designers just didn't consider the existence of lives much different from their own. Privilege is myopic like that.

The point is, if you're arguing that it's perfectly harmless and innocent for the director and audience of this game to take the stance that transhumanism is bad, and anything that isn't "pure human" by some unknown definition is unclean, I'm here to tell you that is still incredibly worrisome, and I'd advise you to rethink your position.

I'm not even addressing your next post; there are others better suited to do that (and hey, Ix is one of them, and they have). I'll just say it was unwise, and advise you to choose your battles or at least your words with more care and consideration for the people you're talking to.

~Neshomeh

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