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Eng. IV Assignments, information
Frankenstein
APE IV due dates, assignments, etc.
Mar. 28 Movie, Gattica or (my choice-- Mary Shelley bio) Begin Frankenstein April 1-Blog April 2 Chapters 1-4, Frankenstein April 3 Chapter 5 and essays in class April 7 Through Chapter 7 April 9 Through Vol II, Chap. I & II April 21 Through Chap. III of VOLUME III Extra credit for your own copy! In-class writing MC practice
APE III due dates and assignments
Arg. Against Nat'l ID Cards, Ques. 3 p. 616, TIA Mar. 24 MC Practice, 5 Steps, p. 247 Mar. 28 Arg. Paper Peer Reviews April 1 April 2-Begin The Things They Carried ACT Prep Course April 4 FINAL DRAFT ARG. PAPER APRIL 7 MAP TESTING April 8-10 TTTC through p 38 April 11 TTTC through p 61 by April 14 APE III TEST MAY 14 Final Book review May
And so here we are...at the big question...we condemn VF for his acts only to embrace the same science some 200 years later...I am willing to bet that there are some pretty creepy things crawling around in labs (or pickling in jars of formeldehyde) as a result of organ transplants, skin grafts, and (swallow, gulp) cloning. Is it okay if we admit we are doing it?
It's definately a little creepy because whats next....real life remake of I Robot?....people are becoming too much in control...next thing you know Big Brother will be our future.
I don't think it is right to design human life, to go along with Courtney's "designer babies." We should just learn to let nature create its own creatures. But I have always believed that when it comes to "creating" creatures (designer babies)that human beings get way to selfish and greedy. we are power hungry beings that need to have power taken away. we try to play God and we shouldn't. we are not God. so to answer the original question, yes, yes it bothers me.
I think that the fact that we are comfortable enough with it to admit we are doing it makes it even creepier. But Victor DOESN'T admit it, which means that he knows its wrong enough to the point he feels that he can't tell anyone else.
I think there is a line between creating life and improving life. In my opinion God only has the right to create life but since He created it and gave us the ability to improve it then I think we have the responsibilty to do so. When I say improve I mean cure diseases, create longer lives for people, and make people happier with their life and such. But when does life start and when are we suppose to to improve it? Does it start at conception or when the baby is born? And this brings us back to the question of babie designing.
Cloning bothers me immensely. I can't understand why you would ever want to create a human being in that manner. Why? Just to satisfy curiosity? In the first place, it'd be extremely difficult to create a healthy human clone, and would most likely result in several unhealthy human clones before you got one (poor things). Just the process of coming up with a clone could and would result in numerous atrocities. Let's just leave well enough alone. There is nothing to be gained from the cloning of a human being.
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It bothers me, definitely. Like I said, "designer babies"....creepy, no?
And so here we are...at the big question...we condemn VF for his acts only to embrace the same science some 200 years later...I am willing to bet that there are some pretty creepy things crawling around in labs (or pickling in jars of formeldehyde) as a result of organ transplants, skin grafts, and (swallow, gulp) cloning. Is it okay if we admit we are doing it?
It's definately a little creepy because whats next....real life remake of I Robot?....people are becoming too much in control...next thing you know Big Brother will be our future.
I don't think it is right to design human life, to go along with Courtney's "designer babies." We should just learn to let nature create its own creatures. But I have always believed that when it comes to "creating" creatures (designer babies)that human beings get way to selfish and greedy. we are power hungry beings that need to have power taken away. we try to play God and we shouldn't. we are not God. so to answer the original question, yes, yes it bothers me.
I think that the fact that we are comfortable enough with it to admit we are doing it makes it even creepier.
But Victor DOESN'T admit it, which means that he knows its wrong enough to the point he feels that he can't tell anyone else.
I think there is a line between creating life and improving life. In my opinion God only has the right to create life but since He created it and gave us the ability to improve it then I think we have the responsibilty to do so. When I say improve I mean cure diseases, create longer lives for people, and make people happier with their life and such. But when does life start and when are we suppose to to improve it? Does it start at conception or when the baby is born? And this brings us back to the question of babie designing.
Cloning bothers me immensely. I can't understand why you would ever want to create a human being in that manner. Why? Just to satisfy curiosity? In the first place, it'd be extremely difficult to create a healthy human clone, and would most likely result in several unhealthy human clones before you got one (poor things). Just the process of coming up with a clone could and would result in numerous atrocities. Let's just leave well enough alone. There is nothing to be gained from the cloning of a human being.
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