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Do You Even Clone, Bro?

The morals of society discourage the advancements of certain sciences. Cloning is one area of bioethics that cause people's morals to conflict and make it to be a highly debated topic. A benefit of cloning is its goal to diminish the pain and grief of the death of an animal or loved one. While this technology is not widely popular yet, it has the potential to relieve the painful emptiness of loss. However, the ethical dilemma of cloning is the issue of whether a clone still has a soul and if it is morally right to recreate a formerly living being. The process of remaking someone exactly as they used to be is abnormal to the orderly design of the natural world. While the purpose of cloning is to replace the loved one by redesigning them, no human can know the phycological or spiritual consequences of copying of a person. Similarly, genetic engineering challenges ethics because it completely alters the nature of how an individual is born. Therefore, it raises an issue since people are born with specific predispositions, mannerisms, and qualities. By eliminating these traits or developing new characteristics, it fundamentally alters who someone could turn out to be. While these bioethics have the ability to minimize the emptiness of grief and terminate birth defects to create a stronger race, I do not believe that scientists should pursue cloning, genetic engineering, or any similar forms of science because God designed humans with careful and divine intention. Cloning or genetic engineering causes the power of life to shift into human hands, which God did not intend for us. Consequently, this results in the growth of self-centered desires. Due to sin in the world, the more that scientists discover and control about aspects of a person's life, the more that power will be coveted. The obsession for advancement beyond death, in an attempt to recreate the way God designed us, ultimately leads to the disregard of human dignity, safety, and of life itself. This pursuit could result in serious irreparable harm of the subjects being tested for research. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein warns that the failure to acknowledge the limitation of mankind is an extremely dangerous path. The monster, created by Victor, is an excellent example of how misguided scientific ambition can ruin a person's life and the lives around them. Victor's neglect and regret for his creation result in the deaths of several innocents whom he cherished. His choice to ignore the dangers of his experiment and then his refusal to take responsibility caused the monster to become vengeful, which highlights the imminent threats of creating life. The example of Frankenstein's disastrous results serves to caution modern scientists of the risks of overreaching in their studies.

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Bioethics

Ethics is critical for humanity to function systematically and to maintain a healthy society. It is the criteria for morals and actions that occur in the world. The magnitude of these ideals is extremely significant in the instance of scientific research. It determines and controls the extent of scientific ideas, testing, and conclusions. The research that pertains to bioethics offers a completely unique perspective of science and its capabilities. It has the potential to boost man's abilities in order to advance science beyond the current capacity of human knowledge. However, the pursuit of ambition and learning becomes extremely dangerous when there is a blatant disregard for human life and morals. When ethics are ignored, the search for discovery shifts into a deadly trap, capable of causing more harm than success. The obsession with power can result in scientists ignoring warnings and their personal ideals to proceed with hazardous trials. These careless decisions end up affecting innocent people outside of the experiments. For example, the idea of designer babies is a remarkable idea in prospect. The ability to eliminate disease and defects before a child's birth is an incredibly virtuous possibility. Yet, when translated into the real world, this capability can become overly extreme. The accessibility of designer babies causes temptation to arise to change how a baby will develop to fit the desires of the parent. This challenges the idea of whether changing the nature of a person is acceptable. While the technology to perform bioethics exists and is promising, it is not always the best option to pursue its benefits. The technology that has the potential to improve people's lives also holds the power to corrupt and misguide innocent intentions. In addition, this ability to progress can lead to people trying to act like God and change the way He has created things. While incredible technology exists, it should not always be used because of its risk of corruption and its uncertainties that challenge human virtues. Bioethics questions the morals of the advancements that humankind can achieve. This makes ethics one of the most significant aspects of scientific research in order to limit surpassing the borders of what is morally right and to inspire man to work for the benefit others.

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Sublime

Victor finds peace and awe in nature. Its properties calm him and help him to process difficult situations in his life. He explores to clear his mind and to surround himself with the incredible beauty and greatness of the natural world. One place that I have visited that is an incredible example of sublime nature is the grand canyon. It is filled with ancient history and remarkable beauty, yet the high walls are a terrifying and dangerous reminder of nature’s power. Visiting the canyon was surreal and its magnificence was breathtaking, much like the nature that was displayed in Frankenstein. In the book, ice is used to represent Victor's stubborn nature when it comes to the monster. He abandoned his creation and hardened his heart to the its request, refusing to make it a partner. Similarly, ice illustrates the monster's lifelessness. While he may be physically alive, he is denied the right of companionship with others and is numb to humanity. The creature's threat to harm people also shows his lack of emotion for his actions and his selfishness. He shows no remorse for the murders, thinking only of what he will gain by receiving a mate. It is appropriate that the story starts and ends in ice because Victor and his creature are frozen in a fight against one another where they remain indifferent and opposed to the other's view. Frankenstein and his monster both refused to relent and, as a result, they made no progress to come to a resolution between them. The rest of their lives was defined by the stubbornness of their choices that eventually led to their deaths.

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Ethical Dilemma

Frankenstein's fear of the monster and his remorse for its creation clouds his view, causing him to be hesitant of creating another. He sees the creature as a vial and grotesque killer. Victor is troubled by the idea of another monster that could terrorize him and the rest of humanity. Despite his creature's promise to leave them alone, Victor does not trust them to uphold this oath. Furthermore, he does not want to risk the possibility of the monsters reproducing to create a separate race. These reasons deter Victor from creating a mate for the creature and result in him turning the monster away despite his threats. According to the monster, he desires a mate to fill his overwhelming loneliness. He promises Victor that if he creates a mate for him, they will live in solitude together, hidden from humanity. The creature’s promise and expression of his unescapable isolation add difficulty to the ethics of Victor's decision and portray the monster's true yearning for a partner similar to himself. I sympathize with the creature's loneliness but I understand Victor's reasoning. I believe that he made the right choice by refusing to make another monster because the living one had proved that he was willing to kill and harm others. The act of making another creature may have condemned humanity further, seeing as his first creation threatened and killed others so easily. Either decision is an ethical dilemma, but I think that Victor's choice is the one that is best for others, even though he was thinking selfishly when he made it. The refusal to make a partner for the monster left it completely alone, but insured a safer world for those that had not been involved in Victor’s experiment.

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The X Factor

CREATURE: "I anticipated your response to my coming. All men hate me, especially you, even as my creator. If you despise and wish to kill me, why then did you bring me to life? You need to take responsibility for creating me and, in return, I will take responsibility for the actions of you and of mankind. If you do not listen to my request, I will destroy all those that you love. I only wish to speak to you, and for you to listen. You created me stronger than yourself and any other man. Yet, I will not fight against you if you only take responsibility for me as your creature. I am a wretch, shunned by the world and others. I want you to make me happy. How can I make you agree? In the past, I was filled with love, but you and your fellow man have made me into who I am-- a miserable and despised being. I now live alone, isolated from the world in the mountains. If others knew of my existence, they would shun me as you do. I am miserable, so why should they not be as well? Deliver me from this fate and I will spare mankind. Listen to me, my creator, and hear my story. The future of man lies in your hands."

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FRANKENSTEIN: "Devil! How dare you approach me. Have you no fear of what I might do? Leave or I will destroy you. You cannot redeem yourself from those you have murdered. You are a fiend, a horrible monster of which I regret ever creating. You are the worst punishment that my mistakes could have resulted in. Leave or I shall kill you myself. I will not listen to what you have to say. We are enemies; one of us shall fall. Why do you stand here to remind me of my own terrible mistakes? Of the creation of you, wretch. I regret the choices that led to your making. Curse the time that you first came to life. Curse my own hands, the designer of such a horrendous evil. You have caused misery to consume my life. Go away from me now!"

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Role of Parents

The creature that Victor created was a result of his hard work and determination to succeed. By purposely designing it, Victor committed himself to take responsibility for its actions. He was now accountable for the consequences of its decisions. Even though Victor regretted his choice, he still had the duty to teach his creation about the world. By subjecting himself to this responsibility, I think that Victor should have acted as a father to his creature. He was the one who brought it into the world, so he should have accepted the challenge of raising it as a parent. In this way, he could have nurtured and raised the creature and then gotten to know its actions and motives before choosing whether it needed to be exterminated. If it turned out to be too dangerous, then his job as its creator was to destroy it. While I believe that the creature was born a Tabula Rasa and that Victor’s care could have changed its development, I do not think that he should have integrated it into society. I believe that it would have been feared and shunned by the people because of its differences and its relation to death. This rejection may have caused worse issues than the creature already faced. Therefore, Victor should have isolated him, yet still taught him about the community. While having a father to nurture it may have changed the creature's outcome, I do not think that it was entirely Victor's fault that it became a murderer. Even though he could have taken actions to prevent this outcome, I surmise that it was in the creature's nature to kill. Victor's neglection of his creation helped to form it into a monster but the nature of its character caused it to become a murderer and a danger to others.

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Tabula Rasa

Tabula Rasa is the idea that people are born with blank minds and that knowledge comes later on from experiences. I think that, to some extent, this is correct. I believe that babies are born with certain traits and that their characteristics are developed throughout their life as they encounter different situations that shape who they are. However, while a baby's knowledge might come later in life, they are still born with a personality, even if it does not become obvious until they are older. The way a baby thinks and its knowledge are learned from later encounters and developed and reformed throughout their life. While people are born without significant knowledge and understanding, they have specific, identifiable traits that strengthen with age.

Both nature and nurture shape the way a person thinks and behaves. I think that nurture constructs the habits and tendencies of a person while nature defines that person's values, thoughts, and actions. Children develop certain behaviors based on the way that they were raised, but I think that ultimately one's nature molds them into who they are as an adult. During childhood, I believe that every kid needs mothering to grow and learn. While children all have different needs and independence levels, the role of mothering teaches them lessons to assist them in the future. It is primarily a parent's job to nurture a child because of the bond that they have at birth. Still, society does hold the responsibility of exposing a kid to unique ideas outside of their life at home. I think that all parents have the duty to love their children unconditionally, regardless if they approve of their actions. A person's development from an early age is significantly impacted by their parents but is fitted around their nature.

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