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True, but you are failing to consider the implied target in the statement of "You smell bad" as "you" is reassigned to "your body".

I actually did note that, but although it is colloquially implied, it remains inaccurate and with the potential of confusing the issue (that I am a girl who needs to be a girl, and my male body gets in the way of such state of being) :S

The most popular form of confusion I encounter is "So he want's to be a girl?"... but this only confuses the issue (see above)... and makes it out to being some sort of wish that I was a girl and not a man, all with the preconceived notion that I am a man (which i am not) and hence have some sort of disorder for wanting to be a woman.

Interestingly... one of the preferred insults I encountered at my secondary school was along the lines of "You look so much like a girl"... which although not entirely flattering, i continue to find rather ironic

And a person is the collection of their experiences, like the character of a nation is the collection of all of it's people, using your examples of course. So as a national character is the set of all people within it, it is logical that certain characteristics of that nation are also, to varying degrees, part of individuals. Hence when a nation indulges in an unjust war, for example, no one person has all the blame, but all are guilty to varying degrees, as they are the ones who contribute to, and by extension, are the "nation".

More than that... to quote part of a paper i just wrote today for a class (convenient much? )

The more one experiences and questions, the more faceted and complex they become… sometimes so radically different from what they once were that it could be said they are an entirely different person. To illustrate this… draw a simple circle. Draw another circle next to it, but draw it imperfectly/with noise. Draw yet another circle with even more noise. Continue to draw advancements from the preceding state, and one will eventually come to the point where they absolutely cannot see many (if any) similarities between the original and the stage of observation. Hence, the original and the new must be considered separate entities.


But beyond that, i for the most part agree to what i quoted as a general rule, though i can see times when (ie: a tyranny) where it does not hold up.