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    It is not the case that Genetic information has a particularly acute impact on self-identity and self-understanding.

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    • 1.Narrative self-constitution, not biological facts, is the primary mechanism of identity formation (MacIntyre, Ricoeur).
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    • 2.Genetic information is a third-personal scientific description, categorically distinct from the first-personal perspective constitutive of self-understanding.
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    • 3.Therefore, genetic data can only shape self-identity mediately, through prior interpretive frameworks, not acutely or directly.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The social representation of genetics as 'fundamental' is a historically contingent ideology (genetic essentialism), not a metaphysical fact (Nelkin & Lindee).
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    • 2.A claim that information shapes identity acutely cannot derive its force solely from the cultural prestige that information happens to currently enjoy.
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    • 1.Genetic information is socially represented as the most fundamental property of the individual.
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    • 2.Information framed as most fundamental to one's body shapes how individuals understand and identify themselves.
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