Re: Responsibility for children / Info Please

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 20:13:06 MDT


At 10:33 PM 18/09/00 -0700, samantha wrote:

> As a human who happens to reside in female form, I am most interested in
> your personal pov on forced-pregnancy and abortion.

but later mentioned that she had started out male (and presumably is still
XY in every cell), and hence, I'd have supposed, can have absolutely zero
personal somatic interest in forced-pregnancy and abortion. Am I missing
something crucial here?

Note: obviously *every* thinking and feeling adult human will have an
interest in those topics, whatever form he or she happens to `reside in'
(`instantiate' might be more valid). I'm just querying the `special
interest' rhetoric. This issue will surely recur in a transhuman future, as
we start to morph our appearance, and to some extent our inward impulses
and experience (by hormone adjustment, etc), without actually changing
certain pivotal self-parameters established or canalized in utero and
during infancy and, later, by key shaping social experiences.

Damien Broderick



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