Having read a decent number of programming books at this point, I'd say they generally fall into two categories:

People seem to always underestimate the human capacity for genuine hypocrisy.

"Overall, not believing in God seems to make people and their offspring more tolerant. Less racist. Less sexist. Enviro-friendly."

I know others have said it, but why is there no science writer?

NPR did a great story on this....I recommend anyone worried about the "designer baby" issue to check it out;

Good. This pleases me.

I quite agree the brain and the body are one thing. Which was one of reasons why I dismissed something as primitive as castration by drugs. It should be implied, or obvious, that if I'm changing my brain in a such radical and subtle way as I described above, my body will be too.

"I suppose, as i'm reading English at University, the notion of a world where our emotions are triggered differently seems contrary to everything i've studied/mentally associated myself with."

No, I would still have emotions, joy, sadness, fear, elation, and all the rest of it. I'd still have imagination and creativity. I wouldn't be Spock or Data. But my emotions would, at least partially, would be triggered by different things. My mind would be just as emotionally rich as a human one but it would be an…

Yeah eating and voiding are tedious too.

Again you're still talking about something that is very crude and extremely indirect in comparison to what I'm thinking about.

If should be obvious I don't want anything so blunt or crude. Castration is not perfect by any means.

Sad for me or just pathetic and lame in general?

Meh, language is a social construct and, as long as humans are humans, it will change slowly and be filled with lots of tedious and unresolvable controversy.

Silicon, not silicone.

silicone != silicon