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    It is not the case that Velleman's argument against anonymous gamete donation is flawed

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    • 1.Velleman's view implies that certain forms of adoption are morally suspect
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    • 2.Velleman's view presupposes implausible connections between genetics, identity, and human flourishing
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    • 1.Velleman's argument relies on a Parfitian essentialist view of genetic identity that Parfit himself rejected as foundational for welfare claims.
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    • 2.Empirical studies on donor-conceived adults show psychological harms are inconsistent and mediated by social context, not genetic ignorance per se.
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    • 3.If genetic knowledge were constitutive of flourishing, adopted children raised without biological information would systematically fare worse—but evidence does not support this.
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    • 1.Velleman conflates narrative self-understanding, which requires social and relational context, with genetic knowledge specifically, committing a category error.
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    • 2.MacIntyre's account of narrative identity in 'After Virtue' grounds selfhood in community and practice, not biological lineage, undermining Velleman's premise.
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    • 3.A view that makes genetic knowledge necessary for identity formation cannot account for flourishing in cultures where biological parentage is socially unrecognized.
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