This, to me, gestures at a set of questions with potentially different answers.
If I’ve been living as a sexual person of any kind, should I choose to make myself ace, given the choice?
If I’ve been living as an asexual person, should I choose to change that, given the option? If so, to what sexuality?
If I am in something like Rawls’ original position and can choose my sexuality for my upcoming life, what should I pick?
If I am in something like Rawls’ original position and can choose everyone’s sexualities for their upcoming lives, what should I pick?
(1) and (2) are individual choices where I can’t think of any universally compelling reason to say yes or no for anyone else. Some choices will be more or less convenient in different societal contexts, and more or less appealing in different personal contexts.
For (3), I could see arguments to be made for either ace or bi or pan, moreso than straight or gay or anything else.
For (4) choosing ace or gay is likely to result in very low fertility rates, unless you are able to get very fine grained as to what kind of asexuality people end up with or get to tweak other drives as well. This probably leads to population collapse unless the technology level is substantially beyond ours. Straight, bi, or pan, all potentially lead to worlds that I can imagine going well.
This, to me, gestures at a set of questions with potentially different answers.
If I’ve been living as a sexual person of any kind, should I choose to make myself ace, given the choice?
If I’ve been living as an asexual person, should I choose to change that, given the option? If so, to what sexuality?
If I am in something like Rawls’ original position and can choose my sexuality for my upcoming life, what should I pick?
If I am in something like Rawls’ original position and can choose everyone’s sexualities for their upcoming lives, what should I pick?
(1) and (2) are individual choices where I can’t think of any universally compelling reason to say yes or no for anyone else. Some choices will be more or less convenient in different societal contexts, and more or less appealing in different personal contexts.
For (3), I could see arguments to be made for either ace or bi or pan, moreso than straight or gay or anything else.
For (4) choosing ace or gay is likely to result in very low fertility rates, unless you are able to get very fine grained as to what kind of asexuality people end up with or get to tweak other drives as well. This probably leads to population collapse unless the technology level is substantially beyond ours. Straight, bi, or pan, all potentially lead to worlds that I can imagine going well.