Again? I’m a bit new. Also I’m pretty sure they’re just confused.

The post is about someone feeling policed by others. Beyond the above I think people should be free to do what they want.

As far as I’ve found so far the only consistent way to measure moral or immoral action is decreasing or causing needless and avoidable suffering. Not all suffering is unnecessary like surgery, exercise, or mental healing. So beyond people going out of their way to cause needless and avoidable suffering everyone should be free to do what they want.

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Not me but I’ve known three people now that would swing to absolute extremes on a kinda half year to three year cycle. Like their thing now is they are an ultra atheist and then in a couple months they were the most devout Muslim possible and then ultra this and ultra that, seemed kinda like undiagnosed manic behavior. Very impassioned individuals, pretty intelligent, absolutely convinced in whatever their thing was at that moment, always trying to fight the “enemy” and save the world type stuff but seemingly totally unanchored. The switches would come with some sort of epiphany or a sense they were being tricked or fooled. I bring this up because two of them had done that swing from ultra right to ultra left and then one into kinda political no man’s land conspiracy they’re both out to get you. Haven’t run into the other guy in a while so I’m guessing he has a new crusade by now.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, just that it typically requires unusual behavior like that or very unusual circumstances such as very large and valuable (typically land) holdings that cannot be sold. Either the wealth gets divided too much or there’s infighting or someone is given the keys to the kingdom and ruins it.

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Yeah what’s external from the body and mind of an individual is a whole other story aka the society in which they are in. It’s sometimes a dangerous perspective but I do tend to see issues more so as technological issues. With this circumstance it’s not an issue I see with an individual that they feel they don’t match their body but that our technology is so limited that we can’t change form as easily as we change clothes. The illness or lacking isn’t an aspect of the individual but in our current technological abilities as a species. With sufficient technology any will should be unbounded so long as it is not causing needless and avoidable suffering to another sentient being. If for instance we can upload a mind and inhabit a virtual space then we may achieve this sooner than we think. In what we consider “actual” or “physical” reality, it’s going to take a lot more time and effort.

There’s an idea that all permutations of energy exist and there’s only one singular conscious mind inhabiting each life generally unaware there’s only one mind.

I could have sworn I’ve seen a study that said generational wealth dissolves like 99% of the time sometime during or after the third generation, that is it’s exceptionally difficult to maintain wealth for generations upon generations.

That’s how this is typically dealt with. Someone encourages the same treatment for other religious texts which then pisses off the Christian folk so then they repeal the whole thing…

I saw this kinda happen irl once. Turns out my friend was actually just bisexual and didn’t know it. Not so much a picture but an easy opportunity to try something they never tried before or pursued with someone they felt safe with.

Mental Illness is a pretty vague thing to define. My general understanding is that it’s anything that would prevent someone from living a full and productive life, the individual can form friendships, relationships, maintain healthy romantic relationships if they want, work a job, have dreams and aspirations, generally make plans, take care of themselves and their hygiene, and so on. Correct me if I’m wrong.

I disagree, but we’re both welcome to our own opinions.

If for example we had sufficient VR or uploaded consciousness or otherwise sufficient technology we could change form as simply as we breath.

I am surprised humans have even gotten to this point, we have a lot of baggage from evolution we’re still carrying around.

The more a comment agrees with the sentiment of a post the less likely someone is to say it is off topic. The less in agreement a comment is the more likely it is someone will say it is off topic and that’s more of an indicator than if it was actually off topic.

But it would be something as easy to change as breathing. Arguably for hairless apes birthed from nature we’ve gone much further than I would have imagined had I been introduced to humans for the first time a hundred thousand years ago.

Sidebar, it’s always interesting what triggers that response of what seems like a natural exploration in a thread and what is considered too off topic. I’ve found it is associated with how well the statement agrees or brings conflict to the primary statement of a post more so than the legitimacy of the comment or how measurably on or off topic it is.

Its just entropy, challenging views is a higher entropy activity. Not changing them, the mind literally requires less energy and thermal dissipation.

We’re all just souls / minds having a human experience. It would be cool if one day we could all relax a little about our wrapper. I think when people start uploading their minds or in whichever way existing primarily in a reality where changing ones form is effortless we will better understand what was true all along.

One way to win would be to have a restaurant where the workers are paid and all tips are refused. Seems like there’s a big fat glaring hole in the market for such a thing.

Either that or people can just choose to not go to places with a default tip higher than they want to pay. This would ensure the business owner is getting $0 alongside the workers.