Summary:
Unspeakable Conversations, written by Harriet McBryde Johnson, is an essay presented in the book Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong. In which she talks about the relationship and correspondence she had with Peter Singer, a professor of philosophy at Princeton. Harriet McBryde Johnson was a lawyer and disability activist with a neuromuscular disease. She talks about the emails she sent to the professor, their debates, and how her views on people like Singer changed when confronted with them face to face.
Reflections:
I must say, I’m surprised at the very cynical nature the author takes with this essay, though I probably shouldn’t be. This woman has a cause to uphold and think of. She is a representative on behalf of her people, going off to a foreign land to debate whether or not they should exist – contentions and misgivings are bound to arise, no matter who you are.
All thoughts, no matter what they come from or how gruesome their content, must be granted an audience at some point, and when we suppress the conversation, it will force it’s way into consciousness. Ideas are hard to kill. Much easier to contain within a few members, but even then you still run the risk of dangerous ideas entering in, the same way we run the risk of getting a disease, though we immunize and mask and regulate. There is no full proof way of escaping ideas, unless by complete isolation which is unsustainable. While I don’t agree with the views of Brian Singer on infanticide and eugenics, and I don’t hold the same views as Harriet Johnson, I will grant them both a seat at the table of ideas.
Notable Quotes:
“Are we “worse off”? I don’t think so. Not in the meaningful sense. There are too many variables.” Pg. 11
“We should not make disabled lives subject to debate.” Pg. 11
“I keep forgetting that even people who know me well don’t know much about my world.” Pg. 14
“But like the protagonist in a classical drama, Singer has his flaw. It is his unexamined assumption that disabled people are inherently “worse off,” that we “suffer,” that we have lesser “prospects of a happy life.” Because of this all-to-common prejudice, and his rare courage in taking it to its logical conclusion, catastrophe looms.
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