> You can appreciate a persons body, you can appreciate a persons personality. Doing the former doesn't magically invalidate the latter.
Making a statement about a body excludes the personality from the statement. There's nothing to invalidate because there is no content on that subject. I'm not making a value judgment here about you--this is how language works, logically. The word "body" exists to distinguish from the mind; talking about one excludes the other.
Generally speaking, you can save yourself a lot of trouble by restricting references to the "body" to a medical context. In every other situation, refer to the person. There's no downside to it, and it avoids misunderstandings.
> If I thought the owner of said body had no value other than their body, you would be correct.
No one but you knows what you think, they only know what you say.
Just to be clear: I'm not judging you as a person and I'm not trying to start a fight. I'm trying to give you advice about how your use of language will be interpretted.
Edit: Just to be super clear, if you had written "whether appreciating an attractive person is the same as objectification", I would agree with you. But by referencing the body, you're using the word for the object.
Making a statement about a body excludes the personality from the statement. There's nothing to invalidate because there is no content on that subject. I'm not making a value judgment here about you--this is how language works, logically. The word "body" exists to distinguish from the mind; talking about one excludes the other.
Generally speaking, you can save yourself a lot of trouble by restricting references to the "body" to a medical context. In every other situation, refer to the person. There's no downside to it, and it avoids misunderstandings.
> If I thought the owner of said body had no value other than their body, you would be correct.
No one but you knows what you think, they only know what you say.
Just to be clear: I'm not judging you as a person and I'm not trying to start a fight. I'm trying to give you advice about how your use of language will be interpretted.
Edit: Just to be super clear, if you had written "whether appreciating an attractive person is the same as objectification", I would agree with you. But by referencing the body, you're using the word for the object.