Stick to Sheep
As we enter a new year in this 21st century, we encounter everyday a new way of outdoing our latest tabloid. This technological era that has started a bit before the new millennium has done nothing but bloom and flourish, everyday we can only stop and wonder what fertilizer we are feeding out feeble minds. It’s not only bad enough that once you buy a new computer, cell phone, camera, or pretty much anything 12 hours later a better and newer model is made. Yet, we have to deal with issues that not only take a big fat poke at our scientific minds but also at our highly prized morals. As I was saying, yes our ego’s are indeed growing at the same time as our minds, but one must think, when do we cross the line?
It has come to my attention that a few weeks ago the first ever cloned human took place. Not much is known, but we do know that it’s a girl named Eve who has the exact DNA structure as her mother. A few things come to mind when you hear this tabloid. One of the first things that come to mind is: “What an ironic, yet symbolic name: eve is the biblical name for the first women created by God, the mother of us all.” It is true, this is a scientific discovery worthy of our gaze and wow’s, but still does our future rely on a bunch of mini-me’s? If so, how would that make us any better than fictional characters in movies such as Austin Powers? Besides isn’t the world overpopulated enough? What would China say about all this when their population is already too big? By the time you’re done wondering what happened to sticking to sheep you finally consult your morals. Is this new advance taking over our nature? Is this changing the way of how children have been conceived since the beginning of time? Would that spiritual higher being you believe in be “O.K.” with this? I can not make up my mind for you, only you can decide and construct your own ideals. I’ll let you develop a conclusion on human cloning all by yourselves.
All I can say is that my true concern is this poor girl who will be tested on her entire life. It’s not her fault she’s different. It’s not her fault she is worth millions of dollars in scientific technology to her creators. She just needs the basics of life in order to be ok. I mean, if it’s hard enough being normal, I can’t possibly imagine being in her shoes. I just hope she is surrounded by the love and affection a human being deserves to grow up in a healthy environment. After all she’s only human.
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