(September 11, 2015 at 2:34 pm)Ace Wrote:(September 11, 2015 at 1:36 pm)Losty Wrote: If you cut off your arms just because you didn't like them and not for a medical reason, that's a cosmetic purpose. Derp.
No, it is actually known as Body integrity identity disorder (BIID, also referred to as amputee identity disorder) is a psychological disorder wherein people feel they would be happier living as an amputee, or being "transabled." It is related to xenomelia, "the oppressive[clarification needed] feeling that one or more limbs of one's body do not belong to one's self".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity
For your premise to be true, Ace, we would have to say that just because there are people with a disorder that makes them get too much cosmetic surgery, due to mental illness, that anyone who has breast augmentation or a facelift is off their rocker.
And the specific choice of Losty to use arm amputation is a random concept she picked to show the idea of bodily integrity, and our right to make what choices we want with our own selves, if it is the product of a reasoned decision rather than mental illness. For you to bring mental illness related to her one specific example back into the equation is something of a red herring.
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
