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Read this with great interest.
Upvoted, despite some status signalling cluttering the transmission up with noise.
Do you mean the explicitly tagged bragging, or something else?
I'm guessing it's a reference to stuff like this:
I don't really have a problem with that, though. If you do something cool, bragging about it is something I'm perfectly ok with. Upvoted.
It read to me like Alicorn's title was commenting on the fact that many people perceive being poly as something you either are or aren't, and nobody could voluntarily switch and still be happy.
I would go further and say neither is something you are or aren't and one can't voluntarily "switch" because it's not binary.
What you're happy doing is a matter of the people around you, the environment you are in, and the person you are.
I think for most people it would be possible to plunk them into non-supernatural, not too different from present scenarios and have them be happy either way or unhappy either way.
Again, to be clear -- I'm just describing a perception. My own belief is rather like what you outline here -- that context defines much of the basis for even asking the question, let alone the spectrum of behaviours you'll find in humans living in that context.