Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
Yes. Entirely a perception problem. Which is weird when a lot of counter arguments to this supposed encroachment upon their self expression are to tell people that it's THEIR problem and they should just tolerate it. Not that that's your argument but if you're going to say there's another way to look at it, you have to consider both perspectives.
Except that you just declared the other perspective doesn't exist.

I've said before - I don't like the ugly animal costumes either. But I'll put up with it because I've thought about both perspectives and I think that the approach that gives each person control of their own self in a shared world is more important than the one that lets people say "I don't like how you're dressed in this picture, so I'm going to change it to suit my taste". Even if I don't like some of what I see as a result - because I'd rather put up with that than encroach on other people who, like me, feel uncomfortable about the idea that someone could do that to them.



Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
Nobody has any right to tell me what I have to see on my computer. Just as nobody has any right to tell you what to wear on your own body. However if i made AR goggles that superimposed clown outfits on everyone I looked at, what argument would you have?

Again.. stop equating a virtual and mutable experience into real life expression and oppression. It is not the same.
I would be horrified by the AR goggles. It's an increasingly real possibility and I hate it because I would never want to be seen like that - or any other thing they could load into the same program. The mere thought of it makes my skin crawl.

It doesn't physically affect me or change me, but the knowledge that someone else is seeing it is where the discomfort lies. And I would sure as anything want to know who is wearing the goggles so I can stay far away from them. It's wrong to me at a deep instinctive level.

And by extension, if not with the same deep intensity, my character is representing me and therefore I don't want that representation altered.

Disagree with the importance of it, but don't say it wouldn't have an effect on anyone, because it would.