I believe that it is helpful to a certain degree. That stated, I believe that it is helpful so that the child will be able to be the best that he/she can be. On the other side of the spectrum, it can also be harmful and overpowering. This can be so by making the specimen feel superior to the rest causing a sort of clash between personalities claiming to be the best but no one will be sure of who is indeed the best because of the genetic chosen at the stage of being a zygote. This type of “testing” can also lead to a whole new social class like in the movie, causing non-justified discrimination over a
Gold diggers are one of my pet peeves for the simple fact that the concept along is stupid. Why would any female want to have to depend on a man for anything? I think that a female is just as strong as a man and just as capable of getting a job and making her own money. To me the concept of being independent sounds much better than being a gold digger any day. Another pet peeve of mine is high class “acting” people.
The major message of the video was that if you are well off, and have a lot of money you would outlive those who are less likely to have accumulated a lot of wealth. Also I think they wanted to point out how impossible it is to move up the ladder of wealth in America because the gap is so huge, and it should not be that way. And what we should aim to do is fix that, and have a better system, because right now it is very unfair in a supposedly fair country. Also the other main point is that we do not have universal health care, while other developed countries do, and it showed that if you have a high level of education and wealth combined you will be healthy and live longer than those who do not. Like I said social economic status has everything
How are we supposed to figure out the problem if we don’t even get to practice let alone experiment? I’m going to read a quote from Orion Magazine. “You need to have the embryo out there where you can work on it—to make the necessary copies, try to add or delete genes, and then implant the one that seems likely to turn out best. Gregory Stock, a researcher at the University of California and an apostle of the new genetic technologies, says that “the union of egg and sperm from two individuals…would be too unpredictable with intercourse.” And once you’ve got the embryo out on the lab bench, gravity disappears altogether. “Ultimately,” says Michael West, CEO of Advanced Cell Technology, the firm furthest out on the cutting edge of these technologies, “the
My theory also is that eventually people will start bidding on artificial organs and the richer people will have say over a family that doesn't have a lot of money. If doctors wanted to replace original organs with artificial ones, it would take a lot of perfecting and obligating a clean bill of health for the patient. Who, if anyone, should be a prime candidate for these types of artificial/synthetic replacements? Do you feel that anyone should have access to them? Even a life-long smoker or alcoholic who knowingly subjected themselves to harmful substances?
The researchers are focusing on children, and how to make their lives better in the long run. The researchers are also focusing on ways to truly make the transgendered person become the opposite sex. I don’t believe it will be very long before transgendered men will be able to get pregnant and carry a child to term. Transgender females may also be able to produce sperm one day. Not very long ago, women were discriminated against just because of their gender.
The film’s advanced genetic engineering may as well be America’s future. Yet the real question in the film is why genetically perfect who were practically guaranteed success lacked happiness, enjoyment and vitality? I believe this answer lies in what is being taken away instead of what is being gained from genetic improvement. When parents pick and choose each detail for their child and their futures it strips the kid from being their own person. The child isn’t given the ability to be unique.
If you are considered as good-looking person in this civilization you have to wear a ugly mask that makes you look like everyone else, “ She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous” (142). Even if God didn’t bless you with a high intelligence or outstanding strength, there is still no way for you to feel good about your looks. Even people with a certain physical talent also had to wear a handicap, “they were burdened with sash weights and bags of birdshot” (141). No certain person could see better, jump higher, run faster, or be stronger than the next, “They were equal every which way” (140). In this society there is no such thing as competition.
When they are older they can go to conformation classes then later be confirmed. In ways this is good because the person gets to make choice into going to be a part of that faith and that church. In some ways it can be seen as a bad thing as it could be seen as pointless as the child has already been baptised so the child wouldn’t really have a say anyway. Orthodox These people baptise babies which in some ways is good because then the child is definitely going to be of that faith, but it can also be taken as a bad thing as it would not be the child’s choice on whether he definitely wants to be part of that religion. They are baptised by full immersion.
All the matters for the best possible life is for well-being, is getting the right kinds of experience, getting the right kinds of mental states, but Norma and Joe both lost the kind of self – knowledge that many of them value because they are motivated by vanity and greed. They don’t care other things expect renown. Finally, their freedom is lost by renown. Norma was especially famous and rich. She has a big luxury house.