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 love your posts, they are always fabulous <3

As if English was a sacred, eternally pure thing. Shakespeare, given his work, seemed to strongly acknowledge that English was best when it was a living thing in constant flux.

I take some relief that your mode of thinking has been steadily growing more irrelevant. It's the future dude. Live in it and change your mind, or fade into unimportance.

I don't know about pretentious, but you certainly are a rude idiot.

For many years now, I've purged gendered terms out out of my speech and writing—luckily English makes this pretty easy to do. It's pretty much second nature to me now to use gender neutral and inclusive terms.

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.

Nope, I still agree with Feynman.

"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.