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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm considering the hovertext and I consider the pounds of bacteria in me to be Me. How are we dividing this out?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You'll have to have a referendum, consulting each bacterium and asking if they identify as part of the collective known as "you" or as an independent organism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I am no anarcho-syndicalist commune a watery bint lobbed a scimitar at me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Do the bacteria in you consider you to be one of them (so to speak), or are you just a cruise ship?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I do have a few swimming pools