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“WHAT SHOULD BE CLEAR NOW is that lone individuals can’t define social identities as they see fit. Communities give social identities their power. But these communities can also create pain because individual freedom is, by definition, constrained by social identity. Being left out of—or, maybe worse, being cast out by—a community is an incredibly painful experience. But the need for structure, to exist in relation to other people, requires limits. Without inclusion and exclusion there is no social structure. To be a woman or man, White, Asian American, or Black, German, or Swiss or any other social identity requires acceptance of a shared view of these identities, not a freely chosen construction of self.”
― Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”
― Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”
“My life is worth living in a cosmic sense. I am a part of something universal and my life contributes to this whole. This question of whether our life is meaningful might just boil down to whether we believe we are connected to something bigger, the sense that we have an important role to play, in some grand drama, or whether we believe that what we are experiencing right this second is all there is.”
― Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”
― Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”
“Given these benefits, it might be surprising to hear that the National Association of the Deaf did not see this medical device as a miracle. In 1991, the organization wrote an official statement that derided the research and the device. The statement raised a number of concerns, but most relevant for us is this: There is now abundant scientific evidence that, as the deaf community has long contended, it comprises a linguistic and cultural minority. Many Americans, perhaps most, would agree that as a society we should not seek the scientific tools nor use them, if available, to change a child biologically so he or she will belong to the majority rather than the minority—even if we believe that this biological engineering might reduce the burdens the child will bear as a member of a minority.45”
― Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”
― Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”
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