User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-24955665-20180902091449/@comment-24955665-20180904204230

Hey, Dybad thanks for responding, damn that’s a lot!

I don’t really buy the whole idea of "synergy versus rivalry" that male sons would have. The females of Selforge are not human anymore, much of the evolutionary psychology of rivalry that would exist in them, does not anymore. The fact he couldn’t do this with males too does not make sense, power wise.

If my dad was a perfectly transcendent being then that would be fucking awesome! Because I would always be taken care of and live a life of endless hedonism. My dad would make sure I don’t develop a fundamental psychology that leads to an inferiority complex. The best analogy is the relationship between Christ and God, (assume they are separate entities here.) Christ will never have his father’s power or authority. And all of his power comes from his Father, but so what? Being the son of an all powerful being that you will never beat, but will always take care of you. FUCK YEAH SIGN ME UP! (It would be cooler if it was an all-powerful mother, so I could have a sexual relationship with her but it’s not a deal breaker. I’m sick I know.)

“It is the nature of each generation to want to be better and/or surpass the previous one” Why doesn’t this apply to the females in Selforge? Lawrence must have gotten rid of this rivalry with the change in psychology, so just do this to the sons too.

“unless you take the mental rewriting route which Lawrence is particularly warry of, and a hundred times more so when it comes to his family - for obvious and perfectly legitimate reasons.” I am not talking about dystopia level mind control. I am talking about the psychological change that comes with the Selforge package. If it works for the females it can work for the males.

“As a matter of fact, the only mental change that really comes with a Selforge Soul is the eternity-friendly type, that keeps the mind and heart forever young and every experience as bright and colorful as it was the first time.” I don’t know everything about female psychology, but you would have to change a lot more then that to get a utopian setting. ;)

“Sons on the other hand are both unnecessary and undesired,” Lets call a spade a spade. Lawrence is very very very straight. He doesn’t like men. If he was attracted to normal men or even cute traps he would do what it takes to make it work and have sexual relationships with his sons just like he has with his daughters. But Selforge city is not just a home for Lawrence; it’s his sex fantasy too. He doesn’t like men ,that’s all he needs as a reason for not having sons. It sounds very disingenuous if Lawrence told his wives he didn’t want sons because of “fear of resentment.”

“Personally I was never fond of the "trap" concept, I can't shake the feeling that guys who masquerade as girls are just disgracing both genders.” To me, men are kind of ugly creatures. The only reason I consider “men” attractive is because of traps, and that only goes for to the 2D world. A world full of trappy cute males and the females that love them is not men pretending to be women, just a different form of sexual dimorphism. Transhuman tech may one day create new genders or even create true sex-changes.

“what could possibly be the value and meaning in a world of puppets, where everyone is basically reprogrammed to meet some arbitrary standards?” Again not talking about dystopian mind control just standard transcendent tranquility that would destroy rebellious foolishness. Also “arbitrary standards” is a really subjective phrase here. Lawrence’s standards for transcendent empathy and cooperation are not “arbitrary” especially compared to his law about beauty being mandatory.

“if he starts getting casual and light-handed about it, he may soon decide to just do whatever he wants (you know how slippery these things are)” You have stated many times that Lawrence is incorruptible. Some of his values are ingrained completely into his being so that his normal conscious mind would have to do a complete overhaul of his being to get rid of them.

“The general bisexuality of Selforge citizens as a whole and native ones in particular is the direct product of their circumstances,” This sentence and the rest of the paragraph, seems to imply that sexual orientation is just a by-product of the environment, when it is not. Straight, bi, and gay are all a fundamental brain chemical predisposition that the environment can slightly alter.

So that is why I asked, does he create a predisposition for heterosexuality or bisexuality in his female children while in utero? Also does he make sure that lesbianism does not ever form in his children’s brain structure while in utero? Or does he let nature deicide on that?

I think it makes sense that Lawrence does not allow his daughters to develop a full on lesbian orientation. Even if they loved their father platonically, over time a large lesbian population would probably want separatist sections in Selforge were their father’s male population was less visible so they could enjoy the feeling of an all female loving gynetopia. On top of the fact that they might feel a resentment against the gross male gender in the outer/inner planes for all the trouble they cause; while seeing their father as the only truly good one. The way I see it, Lawrence already denies lesbians and men in the outer plane any access to Selfroge City because he does not love them or they do not love him. Thus they don’t get to become apart of Selforge. So denying the brain chemical disposition for lesbianism to naturally form in his children’s brains is as standard as making all his kids female by default.