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by commandar 4724 days ago
> "Live your life, do want you want to do, don't ask the government or anyone else for permission"

That's what Turing was trying to do. It resulted in:

>shaming and chemically castrating the man

>If worried about my status as defined by the [UK] government and the fairness I can expect from [UK] government, I would just kill myself now.

The issue goes a bit deeper than superficial validation.