One of my friends and I got into a philosophical debate today.
The situation is as follows:
Imagine your perfect soulmate, if you believe in such a thing. If you don't don't, just imagine the most perfect person that would suit your needs. Every aspect of them is just exactly what you want, and you've magically been informed by the deity you believe in, or you from the future, or Obi Wan's ghost, or whatever, that you could find true happiness with this person, and they will accept you as their eternal love, so long as you accept them as yours.
Now, change one thing - their gender.
Would you be able to roll with it?
If you knew the only truly perfect person for you was the same sex (or opposite if you're gay), would you be able to live with that?

My answer - I think I could. If it means I'd be truly happy, what would it matter if it were a guy or a girl? Happiness is happiness, no?
(I'm not gay. I have never experimented, and I never really plan to. And, seeing as it is impossible to know where true happiness will be found, I'll probably not have this opportunity)

EDIT: After contemplating, I'm not so sure. The debate was picked up a little while ago, and the more I think about it, the more I think I couldn't go through with it.

EDIT EDIT: See The Infamy's reply below.

I edited it to show a new view
AND WTF.
"Last edited by Kaos on Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:59 am; edited 1 time in total"
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-inhales-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Sadly one of the things I want in a soulmate is for them to be a woman. So this is impossible for me.

Teettot wrote:

Sadly one of the things I want in a soulmate is for them to be a woman. So this is impossible for me.

But teet, the rules of the post are

"Now, change one thing - their gender."

I, personally, -cant- roll with this because I just don't like penor and I find the male body to be the most absurdly ugly thing.

I also prefer my perfect opposite to be able to birth children.

As I said this is impossible for me. Because if I changed their gender, then they no longer meet the criteria of my soulmate. Understand the problem for me?

Stupid technical...always poking holes in my arguments...I don't know now...

Yes.
If I ever find that 'soulmate' and thar like perfect.
And I love being around em' .... and day' so happen to be a chick.
So be it.

'Course I'd rather have a guy.
ONLY because in the past I've had the crappiest luck with females.

Hm... I dunno now. After thinking about it. >_<

This is the problem I have with this question. I just don't know...I have never met a man who made me feel all that love stuff and what not. I suppose it is pretty rare that I find a girl that makes me feel that way too...but I really don't know. And as for the computer brain woman idea...movies like Terminator and The Matrix prevent me from loving machines. And computer brain pretty much means robot brain.

The Infamy wrote:

This is somewhat both unrelated and related:

If you could have the person who most fit your person in entirety, that is, you find them attractive, fun to be with, all that jazz, but this person's mind was developed with computers and given a body that was not born but manufactured, would you, could you* love them?

My answer, i believe, is a resounding 'Yes!'



*(join the dance?)

I can't believe Vanessa, my bride, my one true love was a Fembot all along...
Wait a tick, that means I'm single again!
Oh behave!

Anyway
I don't even find this to be a hard question.
Sure, I would.
Almost like a modern Pygmalion, yeah?