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6 Post author: Gondolinian 26 January 2015 12:46AM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 26 January 2015 08:57:40PM 0 points [-]

If inducing trans and gay were that easy it would be as easy to cure it. It isn't.. Trans is so incurable that despite the side-effects it is considered much easier to change the body than the mind.

But I agree with your second paragraph. I'd say that there is such a thing as information hazard. You need anti-memes for such. And best before being exposed to the info-hazard. Kind like an innoculation. At least as a minor when you don't have a sufficiently general mindset to dispose with such ideas easily (stronger immune system).

Comment author: alienist 02 February 2015 02:16:43AM 5 points [-]

Trans is so incurable that despite the side-effects it is considered much easier to change the body than the mind.

That depends on the motivations and rationality of those doing the considering.