Bodily integrity

Nevertheless, The ancient fear of possession can be understood in a broader sense.

It reflects humanity's awareness that personal identity and bodily control, bodily autonomy, are not as absolute as they appear.

We are quite a bit more vulnerable than we realize.

And if something genuinely wished to occupy or manipulate our minds, well, the vulnerability would be the first place to look.

Yet, there is something extraordinary about the fact that human beings return so persistently to these questions.

We fear being watched.

We fear the loss of bodily autonomy.

We fear discovering that our thoughts are not our own, we fear an intelligence capable of understanding our weaknesses and undermining them.

I thought it was interesting, but I was confused about where it was coming from and what the message was.

Not that the message around and I have to say this disclaimer every time I talk about this, I'm a pro bodily autonomy for every child.

They should not have to hug or be touched by anyone that they don't want to.

And they should always feel that they can say that.

There's nothing to do with that.

For me, this is, it's just two messages that are very different that weren't communicated correctly.

But the idea that people will, and again, what was interesting to me was why, the straw man argument that happens when any of these things take place so if i said or if anybody said i have some reservations about this advertisement the attack then becomes so you think children should have no bodily autonomy and they should be hugged and you just think grandparents have the right to do what they and you're going no that's absolutely not what i said and the straw man argument is to take an extreme version of what you've said, twist it and attack it because it's a much easier point.

And when we see the debates around right and left, that happens all the time.

Of course, there is a natural tendency to assume that if a doctor or a midwife is recommending something, then the correct response is to simply agree, particularly when the recommendation is presented with confidence or when the woman themselves feel frightened about what might happen if she doesn't agree.

That means that professional expertise and personal bodily autonomy are not the same thing.

A healthcare professional can have knowledge that we don't have.

They can recognise a situation that we don't recognise.

Walking through the doors of a hospital does not mean that you have handed over the right to decide what happens to you.

Professional expertise matters enormously.

Yes, medical knowledge matters and recommendations can be extremely important, but none of those things remove your bodily autonomy.

Something can be recommended, the reasons for that recommendation can be explained and the benefits, risks and alternatives can be discussed.

I think a lot of the common ones are pregnancy and motherhood.

And the most common one is a loss of bodily autonomy.

And you see that frequently throughout not only classic horror films, but also a lot of contemporary horror films.

You look at Rosemary's Baby, which is like a perfect horror film.

God, I love that movie.

Honestly, when people ask me, like, it's not necessarily my favorite horror film.

I love it, but it's my favorite horror film that examines bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom perfectly.

And also really reflective of the time because it was made in 1968 before abortion was legalized in the U.S. And so a lot of women were going to the theater, seeing that film, seeing maybe their own experiences reflected back at them.

is that women don't want to admit that this turns them on.

And what is most interesting about this whole thing playing out is, aside from the fact that everyone's pointing and laughing at the audience that finds this compelling, is that there's this really, really severe tension that women experience between understanding logically that, like, they would prefer to keep bodily autonomy.

And...

Rape is bad.

Then after you give your head a shake, go back and read the book and see what it's about.

By definition, the romance genre has to have a happily ever after.

Whereas Alchemized is a high fantasy story that focuses on power, oppression, women's bodily autonomy.

And there is a love story that is weaved into all of this trauma.

They're aborted.

bodily autonomy.

Put simply, this argument concedes that yes, abortion kills a baby, but it's okay because pregnancy causes stress, impairments, and harm to women.

Therefore, it's analogous to an act of self-defense against an unwanted parasite that depends on you for existence.

And they can cause you a lot of harm, psychological or otherwise.

And they still depend on you for their existence.

The bodily autonomy argument simply then becomes an autonomy argument.

Therefore, we've established a philosophical rationalization behind support for people like Clancy.

And yes, we will probably have to quote the guy from Jurassic Park many times today.

we're also looking at respect for bodily integrity as well as respect for the dead.

So there's all these pieces that when we're looking at this umbrella of respect for the person, okay, so scientific research, how does that guide our scientific research and our approach to technology? Also, what are some ways in which we need to respect bodily integrity? And lastly, how do we respect the dead? And this is all connected to the fifth commandment, thou shall not kill.

Why? Because that's based off of the dignity of the person.

I hope that all made sense as we launch into today, because we're leaving the days of four paragraphs behind.

It is not morally acceptable if the donor or his proxy has not given explicit consent.

Moreover, it is not morally admissible directly to bring about the disabling mutilation or death of a human being, even in order to delay the death of other persons.

Respect for bodily integrity.