(4) Who comes out on top in their debate, Velleman or Haslanger? Whichever side you take, make sure your argument focuses on their different views of the relationship between identity and biology.
In the debate over the relationship between identity and biology between J. David Velleman and Sally Haslanger, I firmly stand behind Haslanger in her argument against Velleman’s ideology that "an individual’s identity is solely linked to knowing ones biology and having direct influence to their biological parent." Though they both have some concurrent points such as finding “the trend of reproductive technology and the assumptions behind it, especially the way it feeds the desire to have “designer babies” with the right sort of genetic background”(Haslanger, p.2), I believe that Haslanger's argument was more substantive with empirical and personal experience in her argument over Vlleman's personal experience in knowing his biological background and having his own children knowing their biological background …show more content…
A quote taken from book by Barbara Katz Rothman which says different to Velleman's ideals on adoptions and adoptive families states;
“We weave our way in the world, moving around obstacles, wondering on and off our paths, weaving our way along. We weave things that seem disparate together: ideals, theories stories. We weave people together into families and communities, creating the web, the fabric of life. And-my source for this metaphor-we weave hair, white fingers learn to braid and plait and grease and comb a black child's hair-and in doing that, maybe more than in any single other act, we work to weave a black child into a white family, and weave that child into a black community.”(Rothman,
In the debate over the relationship between identity and biology between J. David Velleman and Sally Haslanger, I firmly stand behind Haslanger in her argument against Velleman’s ideology that "an individual’s identity is solely linked to knowing ones biology and having direct influence to their biological parent." Though they both have some concurrent points such as finding “the trend of reproductive technology and the assumptions behind it, especially the way it feeds the desire to have “designer babies” with the right sort of genetic background”(Haslanger, p.2), I believe that Haslanger's argument was more substantive with empirical and personal experience in her argument over Vlleman's personal experience in knowing his biological background and having his own children knowing their biological background …show more content…
A quote taken from book by Barbara Katz Rothman which says different to Velleman's ideals on adoptions and adoptive families states;
“We weave our way in the world, moving around obstacles, wondering on and off our paths, weaving our way along. We weave things that seem disparate together: ideals, theories stories. We weave people together into families and communities, creating the web, the fabric of life. And-my source for this metaphor-we weave hair, white fingers learn to braid and plait and grease and comb a black child's hair-and in doing that, maybe more than in any single other act, we work to weave a black child into a white family, and weave that child into a black community.”(Rothman,