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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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So, this take is based entirely on thinking that a person is their body, rather than their brain. Cut off a person's arm, and they're still the same person. Cut out part of someone's brain and they're not.
Some people have poor eyesight, and we have ways to fix that. Some people have curved spines, and we have ways to fix that. Some peoples' bodies develop the wrong genitals, which leads to developing with the wrong hormones, and we have ways to fix that.
People like BaroqueInMind are body focused: they think the person is what they can visibly see, not who they are inside, and I think that's just the result of a society that stigmatizes caring about mental health, but also a limitation of the human experience: we can't tell what's going on inside someone's mind, all we can see is how they present on the outside, and most people don't have the tools required to think about people any other way.
To break it down though, if you took me and a friend, and put our brains in each-other's bodies, which one would be me? My old body with my friend's brain, or my friend's body with my brain? To me, I am my mind, and to people like BaroqueInMind, I am my body. It should be easy to convince them otherwise, but people can be very stubborn when their beliefs are challenged.