Quote from: iiMTF on September 03, 2014, 08:07:07 PM
Alright, guys and girls. I've got a poll for you.
Would you rather:
A. Live a rich and successful life, a millionaire, possibly famous... But living with the torture of being the wrong gender?
B. Live a life of poverty, living on the streets, not knowing where your next meal is coming from... (like, POOR. Can't even afford something from the Dollar Store) But living as the correct gender?
And no, you can't just transition when you're rich and successful. You're the wrong gender as long as you live.
Also, you stay these ways the rest of your life. You never get out of poverty, you never stop being rich.
My personal choice is B. I worry more about growing up as a man then I do about being poor, so B is for me.
How about you guys and gals?
iiMTF
You know, at first I had a long thought about it, thinking only me me me as usual. But then I came to my senses.
I chose rich for a simple reason: it is the selfless choice. It is the one that would allow me to actually do stuff for others, to make this busted up world of ours a bit better, even if just a tad bit. To be able to try and sponsor research to solve the things that mortify myself the most as a human: our inability to cure total blindness, to regrow limbs, to cure permanent disabling conditions such as diabetes and cancer and of course to detect and cure gender dysphoria even before the baby is born.
And as a very personal choice I'd use some of my millions to do research and re-locate all pests like rats, roaches, poisonous animals, sharks, etc., to special places where they would live happily ever after in their own ecosystem, without us getting in their way, thus making our lives miserable. And many other things like promoting the construction and use of non-gasoline fueled vehicles and airplanes. I mean the list goes on and on it's endless. Of course part of my research funds, a significant part, and yes this would be selfish because nobody likes to be miserable, would also be to do research to find ways to really cope with and eventually eliminate any depression, suicidal or anxiety issues regarding gender dysphoria, once one is at a point of an impossible physical cure for life, as it would be in my particular case, by choosing option #1.
This is of course, the very extreme case: I would be a billionaire (extremely rich) as opposed to an utter indigent person who would really serve no purpose but to maybe smile to a few people because she is happy as a woman, for a couple of days before I die of starvation (I mean if I can't even purchase stuff at the one-dollar store, I am not gonna last a week alive, let's be serious).
Oh this was just sort of an incoherent rambling here, but that's the way I feel. I cry and feel so useless when I see a disabled person begging in the streets (no legs, blind, no arms, etc.) and at that very moment I feel I just don't have the right to feel sorry for myself. With billions at least I could try and see less and less of that. And of course if I could prevent war, atrocities in places like Africa and other places really stricken by poverty, I would use my money for that as well.
Cheers
Bibi B.
P.S. Almost forgot, I'd definitely fund a program to start replacing all these big old stupid street lights that produce that disgusting light pollution cloud in 99% of the cities in our world, for non-light-polluting technology, so we all could see our beautiful Milky Way band without having to drive away to the desert, climb up in the mountains by the clouds of the very Kilimanjaro or sink ourselves at the bottom of the ocean and die in a Titanic-like fashion, but at least having watched THE REAL NIGHT SKY once in our pity human lives! Have you ever been under the shadow --yes the shadow-- of a tree right under either Venus, Jupiter or Mars at maximum magnitude (at opposition) or even the brightest part of the Milky Way in a moonless night? Believe it or not, in places where the sky is truly dark as it should be everywhere, those objects that we barely see in the city (the planets) or don't see at all (the Milky Way band) are capable of producing faint shadows, similar to the ones we see by a faintly-illuminated Moon!!!
