I get that & agree for the most part, but at the same time I'm still frustrated and disappointed that we as a species have long known that external appearance doesn't define the person inhabiting that body (except as how other people treat that person differently due to it), and yet we still can't seem to get past it.

Especially considering the influence popular media has over populations, I can't help but feel the film industry has an extremely large responsibility for helpiing shape people's views of each other. We say people can be anything they choose to be, but until they actually see it for themselves they often have a hard time internalizing that concept in a world that too often proves otherwise.

Perhaps I'm too idealistic, but I can't help but think there'd be FAR less strife in the world today if we could just get past the animalistic instinct of different appearances meaning different species with different values & priorities.