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Question Answered step-by-step Is the following an example of violation of a person’s autonomy?… Is the following an example of violation of a person’s autonomy?X’s parents have been pressing X to follow a career as a medical professional. Both parents are successful medical professionals and have provided the best education for X in the expectation that X would successfully grow through the educational system to attend medical school and pursue a bright career. Even though X has aspirations to pursue a career in the arts, which would allow X to draw on some remarkable artistic talents X has shown since childhood, finally X succumbs to the pressure – the requests for gratitude, the nagging tirades about securing a successful and lucrative profession, the emotional confrontations – and decides to follow the parents’ wishes.Has moral autonomy been violated in this case? Has X violated X’s own autonomy? Is it possible for someone to violate one’s own autonomy? Arts & Humanities Philosophy PHIL 1103 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)

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