Yeah, I'm not at all sure that all those people who have destroyed their healthy bodies can be easily 'cured'. It will be very hard to admit to themselves that their bodies have been ruined, which will be an enormous barrier to any sort of sanity.
Which means that they're the perfect footsoldiers for the other side - people who have burned their ships and all.
They used to constantly talking about race was bad because you're basically insulting someone on something they didn't choose and can't change. Naturally that upsets them.
If someone says you're a jerk because you're, say, a lawyer - you chose to be a lawyer, and if you really hated it you could stop being a lawyer. You might be angry but it's not the same identity-level anger of being something that's impossible to change.
Here they literally created a new group with immutable characteristics. I mean they weren't immutable to start but they've immutable after the surgery. They're stuck in a broken body forever and don't want to be alone so they desperately want to create more people like themselves.
Yeah, I'm not at all sure that all those people who have destroyed their healthy bodies can be easily 'cured'. It will be very hard to admit to themselves that their bodies have been ruined, which will be an enormous barrier to any sort of sanity.
Which means that they're the perfect footsoldiers for the other side - people who have burned their ships and all.
They used to constantly talking about race was bad because you're basically insulting someone on something they didn't choose and can't change. Naturally that upsets them.
If someone says you're a jerk because you're, say, a lawyer - you chose to be a lawyer, and if you really hated it you could stop being a lawyer. You might be angry but it's not the same identity-level anger of being something that's impossible to change.
Here they literally created a new group with immutable characteristics. I mean they weren't immutable to start but they've immutable after the surgery. They're stuck in a broken body forever and don't want to be alone so they desperately want to create more people like themselves.
Well put. I've often thought that they were looking for new victims groups, but never expressed is so well.