Scientists
For many years man has driven himself to make new discoveries to better mankind and himself. We call these people scientist, they try to make new discoveries or take a scientific look at something and better it. Unfortunately their discoveries or views and improvements on something is not always appreciated by everyone. Sometimes even the scientist himself learns what he has done is not morally correct, but what is a scientist to do. Does he take a moral approach and ,maybe, never advance in progress or does he take an ethical approach and go too far. Is there an in between. In order to view this dilemma I'm going to view Victor Frankenstein and his creation in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and compare it to cloning and see if its possible to find a compromise of ethical and moral values. However, before I go into the moral and ethical views, I'm going to take a look at a brief history of science. All Civilization's have studied science, and worked to better themselves. The roots of science run deep into man's history. Early man made use of chemical processes suck as fire making and dyeing of clothes. Man bred plants and animals, and used simple machines, such as the lever and the wedge
knower destroys mankind of himself rather than helps it" ( Johnson ix ). even himself and what he con do. Maybe it's because in his pursuit to power or to help mankind he doesn't what Victor did with his creation, except, His was, for a better lack of words, was made from scratch, however end the best thing to do would be to look at it from both points of view and find a compromise. realize what he is doing until it's too late. This shows that even one's strongest morals can be changed after controversial, that have helped mankind, why is this one any different..... it is not, unfortunately it conflicts with morals. Why he realized this now, maybe its because now that he has achieved the impossible he's afraid of Unfortunately most people are against cloning, they believe that cloning is going against god, or trying as the English philosopher of science Francis Bacon said some 350 years ago, "Knowledge is power." Now this
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