Scenario 1: man is caught in a terrible fire, is permanently scarred so as to be totally unrecognisable but is unaffected psychologically. Ask his wife "is this the same man as before the fire?" and she would say "of course he is. He's the same man - he just looks different.
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Where does a person's true identity lie - in their mind or their body?
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Everything except his biology. He still navigates the world as a male bodied human. Has your "personality" changed since boyhood and yet you still pee standing up? Being a woman isn't an intangible essence. It's a body with consequences.
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Ah, but not all spouses do this, you see, Brian. Even terrible brain injuries don't take the whole person away, and there are people with more dignity, resilience and compassion that you envisage here. (Whatever happened to
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