Sunburned
"Luna, Luna would you please come in here?"
"Ugh! What is it, Tia?"
"It's technology."
Luna grunted in frustration and threw her Ponies magazine across her room before getting off her large bed and walking to the other side of the hallway to her sister's quarters. She popped her head inside to see her elder sister inspecting a computer. Celestia was messing with the small mouse with her magic, but there seemed to be no actual activity happening on the monitor screen.
"What are you having trouble with?" Luna asked and walked to the side of her sister.
"I'm trying to understand this internet thing. It's all the rage now. I believe I have to use it."
Luna rolled her eyes. "I have been locked in the moon a thousand years and you watched technology progress with your very eyes. How do you know so little?"
Celestia cocked her head at her sister. "I never actually believed these things would work. My handy typewriter and my hundreds of secretaries were fine for me. I never thought ponies would use these things."
"Are you sure you should be on the internet, Tia?" Luna asked worriedly. "It's not a safe place."
"With the damages Twilight has done, I must do whatever it takes to combat Starlight."
"Perhaps, but there is much more to the internet than Starlight's ponies. I've looked deep into it. It will haunt you."
"A reasonable sacrifice."
"Tia, this-"
"Tell me how to argue with ponies across the world, damn it!" Celestia hissed.
Luna paused and then sighed. "Um, you press there and there. You use the keyboard and there."
"Thank you Luna!"
"So what did you tell her?" Twilight asked the moon princess as they drank coffee one night.
"I instructed her on how to open a Note document," Luna answered. "She thinks she is battling the world now."
Twilight wiped some sweat from her brow. "Oh good, imagine if she actually knew..."
"Yes, it would be a tragic day."
"I don't see what is so special about the internet," Celestia told her secretary, Raven. "I've written thousands of words and I feel like I've made no impact. The production of computers is a waste, a complete waste. I think it's time we return to the typewriters."
"But we just ordered 1500 computers...." Raven gulped.
"Then send them back. Governments need to be running with absolute efficiency. We have no time to play with little toys. Sometimes it is better to run operations like we did a hundred years ago. Ah, good times."
"Hoof cramps here I come...again..."
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7486837 Uh-huh. Soooo... if the 'brain chemistry' tells a person they're too fat when they only weigh 65 pounds, CLEARLY we must also fit that body to what the brain says.
Sometimes the mind voices are wrong, and giving them what they want is a bad idea.
If part of the brain is giving signals that don't match with reality, it's patently absurd to legitimize the pathology by helping it along.
Discord then shows Celestia the REAL Internet.
Because chaos is a wonderful, WONDERFUL thing!
Well, unless it's messing up my garden. Then somepony has to die...
7486820 Because there is no such thing as a convenient government.
7486829 Will do. Sometime. I am preparing for the school year.
So how long until Equestria gets invaded? Plus somepony needed to actually teach Celestia about the Internet as this will only hurt them.
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"Do you even know what you're dealing with?"
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Poor Raven....... She should file for workers com....... oh.... wait she can't. T_T
7487381 Ah, I see you've never had to work for and/or deal with the Government on a professional level. Long story short, Government is the epitome of inefficiency and redundancy when it comes to doing anything. Not only do they have the paper forms that have to be filled out, the same forms have to be re-written on computer, and then printed out and signed... All in the name of "paperwork reduction
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"It's so true and I just love every moment of it."
7487390 I have known a number that got the surgery over a 20 year period (an advantage of being both old and in science is that I have both logic-based analytical abilities and the long-term experience rather than relying on hyperbole and ideology for my decision and conclusions). Half committed suicide after the surgery. Even though they were in a very liberal supporting environment, once the elation of realizing the fantasy wore off, the underlying psychopathologic comorbidities (a common feature of personality and body-identity disorders of all sorts) returned with a vengeance, likely amplified by the radical instability of the subject's hormone levels from both removal of the natural gonads and the difficulty in maintaining a stable intake of artificial hormones long-term (both which we know quite conclusively alter mood and perception, after all!)
The progressive ideology is actively harming people in the pursuit of its agenda of transforming the United States into... Venezuela? I'm assuming they mean it to become a dysfunctional disaster, given the results thus far.
7487526 I put this into the same vein as those who feel that they're an animal trapped in a human body.
Some of them have undergone extensive body-modification surgery as well.
And in the end it usually results in self-destruction when the fullness of the delusion cannot be realized.
Simply put, what people 'feel' is quite frequently far removed from reality. This is true even in everyday life and not unique to body identity disorders! How many relationships based on feelings quickly fall apart? The majority. That fact in undeniable as we have the statistics readily available. Perception is a messy process of conflicting neural processes. Making a decision on pure logic, too, is fraught with peril as pure logic can coldly conclude such things as exterminating people with genetic illness is perfectly acceptable from an evolutionary standpoint.
But it is just as absurd to take the other extreme, that of making decisions entirely out of impulse and emotion, which even more frequently lead people to leap from proverbial cliffs.
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Just a reminder that 50 years ago people being gay or lesbian was considered a delusion that was 'cured' via electroshock or chemical castration or drugging them up.
Personally I don't see identifying as a different gender to the one you are born with as any different to a person's sexual attraction.
Also, I do know like 5 trans people and I can tell you it's not a delusion in the traditional scientific definition. They know they are physically male/female, and they recognise that (hence why it isn't a delusion). They just identify as a different gender to their biological one. Being gay/lesbian could be considered just as unnatural in your argument because from a purely biological point of view, no human should be gay/lesbian as it restricts their ability to pass on genes ergo it's something that should be cured.
7488525 You don't see a difference...
A gay person is attracted to something different from the majority of attractions... BUT, they accept their own body is what it is.
That's rather RADICALLY different from someone who believes they were born in the wrong sort of body. THAT is a delusion. It's identical to those who legitimately believe they are vampires, werewolves, tigers, aliens, etc.
THEY BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT IS PHYSICALLY AND FACTUALLY PROVEN FALSE BY ALL AVAILABLE EVIDENCE. That is a delusion.
Attraction is a totally separate concept. No different than someone being more attracted to blondes than red heads, for instance. Or, someone who likes very spicy food. Or modern art... though that may be a form of insanity, now that I think about it...
7488908 Are you transgender? Are people trying to convince you to become transgender? If not, how does this affect you? If it doesn't influence you, then why should you care?
7497066 Fair enough, you make a better argument than both.
I'm sure the author doesn't want to see his story flooded with comments from two random people argueing. Wanna continue this in P.Ms?
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7497459 I'm shocked too. When I saw these notifications, I was grumbling "I need to shut up these kids."
But apparently my interference is not necessary. I never mind my readers debating each other as the last thing I want is to appease to only one almost "cult-like" following. I love diversity.
The only thing I DO mind is when they don't stop. My story is not a place for long conversations, you guys have PMs for that.
Or my debate group Logic Prevails. There's a reason it was made.
7497076 Well... not 'unnaturally'... animals often use all available orifices as well.
One can argue the philosophical and moral notions, but speaking from a purely biological and zoological perspective, animals are quite perverted.
Now, EXCLUSIVE homosexuality IS rather rare among wild animals... more common among domestics, but there is the uncomfortable notion that it's due to overcrowding and inbreeding... so that's rather not in favor of the LGBT agenda which is why they've dropped the whole 'nature' thing for the most part.
It's amazing what you discover when you know absolutely everything! For instance, did you know that you can make rocket fuel from old tires and hydrogen peroxide?
7498500 I did note that exclusively homosexual animals were a rarity, and constrained to just a few wild species among tens of thousands when not counting domesticated animals, since their behavior has been drastically altered by selective breeding and inbreeding and thus one cannot consider it 'natural'.
So has the Ghostbusters: Answer The Call debacle givin you any more ideas for this story?
7536240 Nah, they aren't worth my time.