Imagine
living in a world where our future will not depend on the stars as they say.
Where God is not our only creator because in this world children can be genetically
engineered to be the better human that they can be as possible. Where they will be two
types of humankind the “God children” and the genetically engineered. Where
your age of death and all illness you will suffer from will be told to your
parents at birth. How smart you’ll be and the jobs you’ll qualify for will be determined
by your genes. Where our whole future will depend upon on our genes. Well that’s just
how our future world is portrayed in the sci-fi thriller Gattaca.
In Gattaca from the time you are born your future was already known and they were
no way for you to change it. Job interviews would consist of blood or urine
samples to see if you were “Valid” or “In-Valid”. They did not care about how smart
you were or how much that was your passion if you didn’t genetically qualify you
would not get the Job. This future does not discriminate against gender or race
there discrimination was simply genetic. The “In-Valid” will be seen in that
society as “the other”. As seen many times before in history when a group views
another group as “the other” there is going to be conflict some have even led
to war. Since in the Gattaca there
were so obsessed with pursing this objective of a perfect society with
perfectly genetically engineered man, women, and children they lost the
perspective that they system might be flawed.
In the movie Gattaca they show how flawed this system can be. Not only are the “God children” restricted from being able to accomplish certain things in life but, the standard for the genetically engineered are set too high because their all built to be able to achieve greatness their all expected to achieve it. “Though well-equipped, we know not who we are or where we are going.”- The Man on the Moon by George J. Annas this quote from the article is explaining that even though we can be well equipped we still might not know where were going, how life is going to turn out. In the movie Gattaca Eugene the real Jerome Morrow was genetically engineered yet never won a gold medal and ended up in a wheelchair. Vincent on the other hand was not genetically engineered yet he never gave up on his dream of one day being able to be able to fly to outer space. Vincent was the underclass of humans only good for menial jobs so for his dream to come true it seemed almost impossible. Sounds like something heard before right maybe in history or something told to you. In history you seen something like this cause major issues that even had led to war. It also causes issue in the man make him feel like he's not enough have him constantly trying to prove him and others wrong.
Christopher Columbus had reached the 'new' world with the goal 'savages' in to Christians. In Columbus eyes the Indians were 'the other' and him and his people the superior. Reason why their encounter resulted in their merciless subjugation and genocidal destruction. Another perfect example Hitler and his Nazis army they believed they were the 'superior' human. Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs to the Nazi were 'inferior' people that they felt needed to be eliminated. These so-called useless eaters were snatched out their homes and forced to live in concentration camps where they would be treated as lab rats. This had led to WWII and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the most important human document to this date. Both these events centuries apart all started with an idea that one was superior from another. That all humans were better off being a certain way if not they shouldn't be allowed to exist well at least co-exist with their type. Can you imagine a world full of Christians trying to kill you if you do not convert or if Nazis ruled world? I'm nowhere near being German or a christian so me and people like me would not survive. This is not no different than having genetically engineered 'superior' humans if your not genetically engineered you won't survive.
Most of us want our children to have better lives than we did i know. Having the power to be able to make that happen to be able to make your child smarter,stronger,happier or longer-lived seems perfect but its not. "But in pursing this objective we lose the perspective"-pg234 The Man on the Moon by George J. Annas we are so busy chasing perfect humans that we forget what aiming for 'perfection' can do to our society. We forget the issues it has caused in the past that can again occur in the future. George J. Annas makes another good point in his article "an earth-sized human zoo in which every man, women, and child has all the "smart genes" that's what were going to be. Even if well equipped were humans we still won't know what to do with ourselves. Not only that we would have to build international criminal court to help channel and control our new found powers and to protect basic human rights. They will be an oppressor and an oppressed.
Lets go back to the movie Gattaca now how Eugene the Valid human didn't really amount to what his genetically engineered profile said he could, but Vincent on the other hand the In-Valid surpassed his profile. He did not only just fly to outer space and save a genetically engineered male life twice he cheated the whole system. He proved a flaw which rises questions on many other mistakes have been made and something like this might cause the 'inferior' people rebel against the 'superior'. They can be no such thing as a perfect human because nothing is for sure including science. There is one thing that is for sure though that when one group is being another group as sub-human there's going to be serious issues.
In the movie Gattaca they show how flawed this system can be. Not only are the “God children” restricted from being able to accomplish certain things in life but, the standard for the genetically engineered are set too high because their all built to be able to achieve greatness their all expected to achieve it. “Though well-equipped, we know not who we are or where we are going.”- The Man on the Moon by George J. Annas this quote from the article is explaining that even though we can be well equipped we still might not know where were going, how life is going to turn out. In the movie Gattaca Eugene the real Jerome Morrow was genetically engineered yet never won a gold medal and ended up in a wheelchair. Vincent on the other hand was not genetically engineered yet he never gave up on his dream of one day being able to be able to fly to outer space. Vincent was the underclass of humans only good for menial jobs so for his dream to come true it seemed almost impossible. Sounds like something heard before right maybe in history or something told to you. In history you seen something like this cause major issues that even had led to war. It also causes issue in the man make him feel like he's not enough have him constantly trying to prove him and others wrong.
Christopher Columbus had reached the 'new' world with the goal 'savages' in to Christians. In Columbus eyes the Indians were 'the other' and him and his people the superior. Reason why their encounter resulted in their merciless subjugation and genocidal destruction. Another perfect example Hitler and his Nazis army they believed they were the 'superior' human. Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs to the Nazi were 'inferior' people that they felt needed to be eliminated. These so-called useless eaters were snatched out their homes and forced to live in concentration camps where they would be treated as lab rats. This had led to WWII and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the most important human document to this date. Both these events centuries apart all started with an idea that one was superior from another. That all humans were better off being a certain way if not they shouldn't be allowed to exist well at least co-exist with their type. Can you imagine a world full of Christians trying to kill you if you do not convert or if Nazis ruled world? I'm nowhere near being German or a christian so me and people like me would not survive. This is not no different than having genetically engineered 'superior' humans if your not genetically engineered you won't survive.
Most of us want our children to have better lives than we did i know. Having the power to be able to make that happen to be able to make your child smarter,stronger,happier or longer-lived seems perfect but its not. "But in pursing this objective we lose the perspective"-pg234 The Man on the Moon by George J. Annas we are so busy chasing perfect humans that we forget what aiming for 'perfection' can do to our society. We forget the issues it has caused in the past that can again occur in the future. George J. Annas makes another good point in his article "an earth-sized human zoo in which every man, women, and child has all the "smart genes" that's what were going to be. Even if well equipped were humans we still won't know what to do with ourselves. Not only that we would have to build international criminal court to help channel and control our new found powers and to protect basic human rights. They will be an oppressor and an oppressed.
Lets go back to the movie Gattaca now how Eugene the Valid human didn't really amount to what his genetically engineered profile said he could, but Vincent on the other hand the In-Valid surpassed his profile. He did not only just fly to outer space and save a genetically engineered male life twice he cheated the whole system. He proved a flaw which rises questions on many other mistakes have been made and something like this might cause the 'inferior' people rebel against the 'superior'. They can be no such thing as a perfect human because nothing is for sure including science. There is one thing that is for sure though that when one group is being another group as sub-human there's going to be serious issues.
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