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[Sergarr]

The problem is that with ability to operate and change stuff in brains, comes the ability to literally change people's minds. And that's no good.

[Gentlefish]

But you can already change people's minds with brain surgery. Laughably simple surgeries too.

Just stick a screwdriver through your tearduct, wiggle it around, and bam! new personality and sever hemorrhaging.

[Skyrunner]

Fine-tuning, though, is hard.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I'm just imagining someone twisting knobs on someones head, while their awake, and they're just screaming.

"JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THOSE ARE MADE OF BONE PLEASE GOD STOP."
...
I'm a terrible person.

[Tiruin]

But you can already change people's minds with brain surgery. Laughably simple surgeries too.

Just [do x > physical force onto the brain] stick a screwdriver through your tearduct, wiggle it around, and bam! new personality and sever hemorrhaging.

It...doesn't...work that way.
At all.
 
As in, seriously. I hope this is a...joke.

[Darvi]

Nope, telling people to stick a screwdriver up their cranium is never a joke, Tir, and should be treated with all seriousness.

[Graknorke]

But you can already change people's minds with brain surgery. Laughably simple surgeries too.

Just [do x > physical force onto the brain] stick a screwdriver through your tearduct, wiggle it around, and bam! new personality and sever hemorrhaging.

It...doesn't...work that way.
At all.
 
As in, seriously. I hope this is a...joke.

It does work that way though. Some of the time, anyway.

[Yoink]

My friend's cat just strolled in, walked all over my keyboard, opened a heap of new tabs and caused my browser to crash. Damnit, cat.

She's always finding new ways to fuck stuff up. Like that TV she broke recently.

[TD1]

Get out the tranq darts.

And pray they don't evolve dexterous thumbs.

[Sergarr]

I'm just imagining someone twisting knobs on someones head, while their awake, and they're just screaming.

"JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THOSE ARE MADE OF BONE PLEASE GOD STOP."
...
I'm a terrible person.

Thankfully there are no pain receptors in the brain.

You can experience the personality change in real time

[mastahcheese]

Damn it, people.
"Lobotomy" is not synonymous with "Personality Overhaul".

[TD1]

_{That's just what the Cat Lord wants us to think before he sticks a screwdriver into the Dog Centre and turns it to the Cat Centre}

[Tiruin]

Damn it, people.
"Lobotomy" is not synonymous with "Personality Overhaul".

This, guys ._.
Because really. Medical history has gone through a . . . lot of dark times to get to this bright future we're arriving because of assumptions via observations. Like Phrenology. But that's assuming dark = Chaotic and nothing good came out of it. :V

[Frumple]

Damn it, people.
"Lobotomy" is not synonymous with "Personality Overhaul".

... and yet, the latter arises from the former. It's not synonymous, no, but it is an explicit consequence. As noted, it is, indeed, a laughably simple surgery that results in significant personality shifts.

It's just, uh. Not very precise. Or generally desired. And the particular method mentioned would probably kill you. But it would do what Puff said it would do.

Pretty sure we've got less hamfisted processes (beyond lobotomies, mind) as well, though. Still very rarely used and far from particularly sophisticated,* but they're out there.

* And, considering the variance between human brains, even if we do end up being able to perform tailed personality alterations, it's probably going to be a long time before it can be done on anything but a subset of the population. And prohibitively expensive for anything but limited use. There's much more simple and economical ways of population control, anyway. Propaganda, just to start.

[Bauglir]

So, for what it's worth, trans* (by my understanding) is about how you identify yourself, and orientation is about who you find attractive. There's probably some interesting interaction here; a trans man (physical woman) might be gay (attracted to men), and might not be sure how to handle another trans man (physical woman). It would probably depend on what characteristics of men are actually attractive to that person, and there's no Right Answer for what those are or ought to be.

Now, I get that gender identity might not seem important to you, but people have all sorts of weird ideas about what defines them and as a general rule we respect those. Like, religion is unimportant to me, but lots of people identify as holding religious beliefs, and that's OK. You pretty much go, "Yeah, alright, that's a valid thing to care about", in the absence of a very good reason to do otherwise ("Civilian Kill Count", for instance). But that exception should really go without saying - most of the time, there is no such reason against a perspective, and so most things are respectable.