Playing God?

From Designer Babies to making a monster to enhancing someone’s intelligence. The ultimate question between science and ethics. Just because technology allows us to change/create something or someone, should we? It’s wrong to try and change or create something for your own selfish reasons and just because you want to. It is wrong, inhumane, and just because you want to sometimes other people and the thing/person you are changing/creating doesn’t want to.

In the story “Flowers for Algernon” the main character Charlie Gordon is going through and experiment to enhance his IQ to make him a genius. Making his intelligence made him smarter but it has made him too smart. He has become too smart for the woman he likes Ms.Kinnian. In the story Charlie lost his job and is getting rejected for his sudden intelligence. He says “This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I once knew and loved.” (Keyes 188-221) He cannot tell anyone about the experiment he went through so everyone thinks that he is a freak. He also now knows how he acted in the past so now he feels ashamed. In the story it says “Now I know what it means when they say “to pull a Charlie Gordon.” I am ashamed.” (Keyes 188-221) He feels bad about how he was before and now he feels worse about himself. So when he becomes mentally challenged again he feels worse about himself then before.

In the story “Frankenstein”, Dr.Frankenstein makes a monster then runs away from it because it was very ugly and scary looking. He leaves it to fend for itself in the woods and doesn’t help or teach it anything. He was left alone to deal with people and had to learn how to speak by himself. He became spiteful and he hates humans. He says “I have endured toil and misery” (S...

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...re going to live like that for the rest of their lives. Imagine if the scenario was turned around and it was the parent that was getting changed without any input of their own. It is wrong to even think of changing someone forever.

In conclusion it is wrong to change someone or something to be the way they want. You shouldn’t try to play god because if you change or create someone or something sometimes they don’t even want to be changed, what if they want to be themselves? Not giving them a choice to be themselves is not an option. Everyone and everything should have the option to be original and not be the way that someone else wants you to be. No one is better than anyone else so you shouldn’t change yourself to be better. Even though technology allows us to do this stuff right now humans don’t need to know everything now, humanity can learn at their own pace.