blog # 10 gattaca response

Brandon Miller
10/21/10
Blog # 10 Gattgaaca response


Old school or new school? Modern or contemporary? Old fashioned or new wave?


Perfect or normal?


In a world were you can have the perfect little girl, smart, charming, perfect manners, blond hair and blue eyed, an excellent cook and care giver, motherly, without any disease. Would you you do it? If you could have the perfect young man, wise and strong, a great atahlate, able to solve any problem, destroy any obstical, would you do it? If it meant having your child grown, and not conceived, have them be made in a lab and not in God's loving hands, would you do it? Is it better this way or the old way? For years man has turned it's back on God, turning to science instead. They choose to go with what can be explained and if it can't be proven, it is not true. Now man sets about trying to correct “God's mistakes.” make the perfect ideal human being. One with no flaws, no disease, no accidents. But at what cost, when do we say enough is enough, when are we no longer human?
That is what the movie Gattaca and the aritical Man on the Moon, try to explain. A world where we can grow a human to be perfect. But what happens to the other humans, the ones that are not created in such a way, the humans that are grown, the old fashioned way? Would they accept the new, perfect humans? Would the perfect humans accept the regular ones.
From the movie's stand point, a human who is grown is the ideal child. The ones who are born are looked down upon for their inferiority. The ones who are born will probably not get the same job or treatment as the ones who are grown. After all, why choose the normal one when you can choose the one who is incapable of making a mistake? I think if the movie were to continue, it would have gotten worse for the normal humans.
When the director died they sweeped the area for any possible genetic possibility for a suspect. As soon as they found someone who was not grown, he is considered an invalid, and is instantly considered to be the killer. Once they have that, they immediately start an investigation on this guy because he was born. They line up a bunch of them and if they try to run they grab him and trow him near his car. What if this behavior continued? What if the grown humans decided that the born humans inferiority was a threat that needed to be 'dealt with'
But the same can be said about the ones who are born. Look at X-men for example. The humans hated and feared the others to the point of calling them 'Mutants' They beat them, say they are a plage that needs to be cured, round them up and trow them in jail or worse, do theses horrible experiments on them. All because they were born differently.
That is another problem the movie pulls up. The people judge others because of how they were born. I think this is a horrible way to judge a person. They had no choice in how they were born, no say in it what so ever. It was completely up to the parents and there for them that should be judged. The only crime or wrong doing the child had in that case was being born. Judgment should be placed on a persons actions, ideals and character. Not on something that they had absolutely no control or say over.
Another point is the fact at how the government will treat this. When ever a government comes up with a new invention or idea the first thing, the very first thing they think about is how this can be used as a weapon. Can you even fathom how horrible a situation that will be if we ever found out how to grow a human? Imagine a soldire that we can grow to the peak of physical strength,who never gets tired, fights even when in great pain, faster, stronger, smarter, more obedient, always focused on the mission. A soldier that will fight at all costs. Growing canon fodder. The reason we as citizens have the right to bear arms is for the poupuse of if the government went out of control we could defend ourselves. How could we possibly defend against a limitless army far more powerful than a human ever could be. And what could we do if the country that can grow a human decided they where more powerful and decided to go on a conquest of world domination. It would end in either two ways, complete domination, or complete annihilation.
All in all this is a horibale idea with clearly more cons than pros. It will not end will for etier the borns or the growns. Just because it's new doesn't mean it's improved. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's classic.