Resistance to Technology
Technology. What would we do without it? Probably have a lot less fun and have a lot shorter life span. Think about it, you couldn't watch Dawson's Creek or Friends every week. That would mean that the lives of millions of teenage girls in America would cease to exist. And yet there are still some people who are afraid of new technology. They're afraid of a technology that could improve the lives of Americans just because they saw a couple of science fiction movies where an extremely unlikely situation occurred and all hell broke loose. When in reality precautions are made to ensure that things like that won't happen. Super-intelligent sharks won't become smarter than humans and nearly escape to rule the world like they did in the movie Deep Blue Sea. One technology that people seem to most fear is cloning. Specifically one of my friends raised a good point about the subject, she said that in her high school they had a debate about cloning and the side against cloning stated that if there was an exact genetic clone of yourself and this clone went out and committed a whole bunch of crimes, then how would they know who did it unless you had an alibi. Another thing that people seem to be
1. Block, Marylaine. My Words Mouth http://www.qconline.com/myword/netfear.html Nov. 1996 vol. 2 #19 afraid of when it comes to cloning is the religious aspect. Many see cloning as being too close to "playing god". They don't think that specifically sorting out genes and selecting which traits their children will have is morally correct. But there's a flipside to this in that if we can select which traits our children will have, we may be able to eliminate hereditary diseases like cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anemia. It all depends on how the question is phrased. If I were to ask somebody, "Should we be able to change the genetic traits of our children", they would most likely respond negatively. However, if the question was phrased as "Should we be able to genetically cure abnormalities in our children", most people would change their minds. This just goes to show that most people don't really have any idea what they believe when it comes to cloning and gene therapy. And what they think they believe tends to come from other people. Maybe if people were more educated and better understood subjects like this, they would better be able to make their own decisions.
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