This came in as fan mail:

Since you’re asking for questions… would you ever do to someone in person what you write about? given the chance of using whatever means be it force or magick or whatever…would you SERIOUSLY do it to someone? 🙂

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: I can think of some situations where I might say yes, but by and large, the chance of those situations ever occurring are so small that the answer is essentially a no. And I don’t mean something that the ability to change someone as I wish would be hard to come by or something like that, so let me try and develop my answer a little further.

The first problematic question, assuming I had the power, would be who would I change? There would be two potential kinds of targets–those who consent and those who do not. Changing someone without consent would be pretty immoral–and there’s no one I hate enough to force a change upon that they don’t consent to. But, I’m sure there are plenty of people who would consent to being changed. Would I change them?

I don’t think I would. I think that an important part of being human is that we are given a body which we possess only limited control over, and which is generally in conflict with how we perceive ourselves. The age old mind-body problem of philosophy. If we were given the power to fundamentally change ourselves, I think we would cease to be human in an important way. 

Beyond that, how does one even begin to juggle to ethics of which transformations to allow? Some minor transformations are obviously of small enough scope to be allowed, but what if someone wants to become superhuman? Become a clone of some celebrity? Become an inanimate object? How do we even begin to sort out the questions of rights that extreme transformations would create?

It’s a big mess, and not one I feel the least bit able to handle answering. So no, I wouldn’t change anyone. Except grammar nazis–I’d make them illiterate trailer trash, just for fucking fun.