Gattaca study notes: 3 themes: * Destiny Vs Freewill * Dangers of scientific and genetic experimentation * Systematic discrimination Names and meaning : Jerome = Genome ( genetic material ) Morrow = Tomorrow ( of the future) Eugene = A Greek word means well –born Eugenics = science of im0proving the hereditary( genes passed naturally from the parents) qualities of a race or breed Destiny VS Freewill ‘Destined’ to be an in-valid but driven to a, Vincent surpass his predestined potential and expectation by gattaca’s society with bravery and determination - Vincent commitment and struggle seem very individualistic in the world of Gattca as he refuses to accept his fate. - He completely devotes his time to get
Machiavelli, sees the worst in people, he sees nothing worth liking when he views them. And because of this he believes that they should not have free will at all, in fact they should be suppressed by a strong central government. He goes on to say that the leader of this government should be as ruthless as necessary, and that he should not feel bad about anything that he has to do to keep the government in order. Machiavelli says that the ends always justify the means, and he goes on to say that if a government is weak internally then it is very possible and likely that they will be invade by outsiders who see these weaknesses and want to exploit them in order to defeat the culture. Machiavelli was correct with his prediction of this when the French invaded Italy in the 1490’s.
Obviously if a parent, or some other figure, was going to give away land or a certain object as an inheritance it would be important either to them, their family, or their group. This culture within the family, or group, would be destroyed because there would be no way to pass it on through the generations. Frank Zappa is quoted saying "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." This is so true. The communists want people to just give up their rightful inheritance and support them.
A truth which crosses national loyalties. Why are we letting the evil minded win? What would you rather be- hated because you ruin other people’s lives, or looked up to because you halted the evil minded in their tracks? We could stop this, we could speak out, but no we don’t because we are cowards. Who here has ever spoken out to stop something big?
The world needs to stop being so greedy and stupid. Greed always leaves to some sort of chaos. Stupidity leads to horrible mistakes that we will regret later on in the future. If countries would leave each other alone by not being so overwhelming stupid the world would be such a peaceful place to be on. We need to leave all the drama in the past and start a new beginning.
We can’t make things equal because the way we are multiplying, the poor of the world will need more and more. Hardin explains “the tragedy of the commons” and while with good intentions, could never be implemented in the world today. He argues with this that it only takes one person (or in our case, one nation) to ruin the system, which is unfortunately inevitable. Hardin would clearly be going against Altruism and Deontology’s line of thinking. Hardin would say that we must look after ourselves because by helping the poor, it would only lead to the downfall of everyone.
So how could we forget about something so tragic? Now if we keep this memory and teach it to our future generations this atrocity could be avoided. Us the human race realized how barbaric this act really was. It made us look like savages. And never again we should ever do this to another race.
Sacrificing innocent for population control is, in my opinion, just wrong in itself. Germ warfare and famine target humanity at large. It confuses all morality for power. A perfect example of this was the Gulf War. I feel it is definitely wrong to fire on you own land, especially when it distracts large populations from hard work, economic development, and the demands of spiritual growth and self-mastery.
Also reproductive cloning is not right because it is dangerous to society. In article remarks of President Barack Obama “It is dangerous, profoundly wrong and has no place in our society or any society”. (9) There is always failures and can harm other’s lives. So it is not necessary for reproductive cloning in our society. We would be endangering our society, this does not need to be
This shows that when the country is all set and done with what they were doing that it will just hurt the morale of them. This argument could be differential to some, but they have to think that not only could it stop and possibly save countries but it could also save lives of many people. Therefore using torture does not help the cause in the world to this day; it will only keep destroying countries all