No.

I support their right to pay money to fuck up their face if they wanna pretend to be of a sub-sapien species of animal

I also support my own right to laugh at their stupid fucked-up faces

I'm about as supportive as this as I am for plastic surgery and botox stuff - They can do it if they want to, but they can live with the potential irreversible consequences of it (and it kinda looks shitty, especially regarding botox).

ADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM

Quote from: Sandtrap on January 05, 2015, 09:30:15 AM

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on January 05, 2015, 09:18:05 AM

But to answer the incorrect OP, yes I'd... support... people who do that to themselves. I wouldn't encourage it by any means and I sure as shit think it's stupid to botox your face until you look like a cat. But ehh, and find a better term to steal. Don't take the machines from me <___<

Trans-Humanism is a rather broad term that can encompass a fair bit. And, if you think about it, one way or another there are going to be two types of trans-Human movements sometime in our future.

One for cyborgs and mechanized people. And another for people who are spliced. Eventually our manipulation of DNA structures and coding will likely be fine tuned as much as robotics. Which is rather interesting now isn't it Mr. Psych?

Two distinct and separate goals that end in the same outcome. Moving past what we currently are.

I suppose it is <.<
My personal preference would be splicing, but we are still paddling in the kiddie pool for genetic manipulation and doing such augmentations to a fully grown creature is... unlikely to work out well. So it's going to be bionics and augmetics for me instead >.>

Nevermind genetic manipulation or truly functional prosthetics, I think our current best field is in cloning or engineering. I mean they've already grown a separate heart from stem cells around synthetic material and they're teaching it to pump like a heart.

Here's the list of progress.

First comes understanding and replication of how we work, replacing damaged parts with sparkly new copies.
Then comes alterations of how we work whether it be through machinery or splicing.
Merge cloning and replication with machinery or splicing and you've got yourself a brand new varient of the species.

Ugh, the singularity can't come soon enough.

relephant video

I'm not going to lie, if I were in some kind of dictatorial position of authority, I would have otherkin arrested and shot.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on January 05, 2015, 10:06:30 AM

Wait, are people seriously starting to conflate otherkin with transhumanists?

No wonder I have constant urges to brutally murder people all the time.

blame tumblr

I don't think this is so much an actual thing as it is just dustin doing what dustin does.
Even tumblr seems to know whats up.
http://www.tumblr.com/search/transhumanism

Not that I'm not sure there are some naive people out there who would confuse the two.

Quote from: RustingFloor on January 05, 2015, 02:12:19 PM

I'm not going to lie, if I were in some kind of dictatorial position of authority, I would have otherkin arrested and shot.

Spoiler

Or would I?

I would have said just section them, but you are american after all :/

if we used gas, the money spent wouldn't go back into the weapons industry.

You have to be a smart dictator.