Skin-jobs And Connection: Living Life On Life's Terms
Posted September 22, 2008
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So, are transsexuals real? Are androgynes, genderqueers, gays, Muslims, Catholics, cross-dressers and ->-bleeped-<-s real? What about women and men? Are we real or are we merely constructs? Is one breath like another or are some breaths being taken by evil incarnate, people who cannot be real people because they are in some fashion unlike me and deserve no rights, no recognition of their own humanity? Are those people unlike me frightening and inimical to the well-being of all? Should we hire Bladerunners to blast them out of existence as threats to ourselves and The Good?
Afterall, what are all those myriad others out here in my world who are different oin some way than me? Aren't they merely skin-jobs? They have to be some sort of robotic creation that cannot partake of life in the same fashion as I can partake of it. They are only good to work on colonies on distant palnets, perform feats of military victory or defeat and then fade away after five years. Is that not so?