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Oryx and Crake: Blog #2

5. If you had the chance to fabricate an improved human being, would you do it? If so, what features would you choose to incorporate? Why would these be better than what we've got? Your model must of course be biologically viable.

To fabricate another human being would be messing with the laws of nature. Personally I already think we are fiddling with things we shouldn’t. For example, the cloned sheep in Europe. I personally don’t think there is any use for an experiment like that.

However, if we go back to the idea of making a human being, it’s a curious idea. It has its advantages. We could create people who have less health risks, catch less diseases, not prone to cancer or being over weight. Simple things that will improve someone’s life. However, once you begin changing aspects in humans, there will be those people who want to change there appearance. They will want nicer skin, prettier eyes, ect. But isn’t it our differences that make us who we are?

It is often assumed that human kind will reach perfection if time is given. Eventually, we will become intermingled genetically. Then, if we take into account the law of evolution, we can only assume that we will end up with a perfect human. However, this will actually never happen, although a great theory. Since we are not letting Darwin’s theory take place, we can not assume that we will ever reach that one perfect human. We are keeping people alive that would otherwise die, assisting people in living who should have not been kept alive and allowing individuals to reproduce that honestly and truly shouldn’t.

Ultimately, if we were to be able to create a human, theres a fine line that human kind will be walking. If we allow it to take over, we will soon become the same and self-destruct. However, there a health benefits for it. Like plastic surgery, there is good and bad. People who’s faces collapse could have a complete face, but girls with small boobs will pay thousands to get the made bigger.

I chose this because this has been deemed the perfect human, through proportion and assumption. Nature should be able to run its course with out being fiddled with.