Is Anatomy Destiny?
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Is Anatomy Destiny? (TED|18:32)
Link to Video -> https://www.ted.com/talks/alice_dreger_is_anatomy_destiny#t-2395
In this talk, Alice Dreger asks this question, “Why do we let our anatomy determine our fate?” Alice Dreger works with people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and intersexed people. In her observation, it’s often a fuzzy line between male and female, among other distinctions.
In your essay, please address the following questions:
What are the basic issues and main themes addressed in the videos?
Were the issues addressed from a biased or unbiased perspective? Were the presenters operating with an underlying agenda?
Was there agreement or disagreement among presenters regarding the main issues addressed?
What were the major moral/ethical issues related to these topics?
How do the ethical perspectives of subjectivism, relativism, and/or emotivism relate to this topic?
Sample Solution
Alice Dreger works with people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and intersexed people. In her observation, it is often a fuzzy line between male and female, among other anatomical distinctions. Which brings up a huge question: Why do we let our anatomy determine our fate? The author, Alice Dreger, wants to know why we let our anatomy decide how our future is going to be. In the future, as science continues to become better, are we still going to continue to look at anatomy? Would we ever confess that a democracy that was built on anatomy might be collapsing? We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn’t draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.
