Power to Create Life

     If given the power to create life as Frankenstein did, what choice would you make? Would you create such life? No?

     If I was given the power to create life such as Dr. Frankenstein, I would not use it. There are several reasons why, and some can go very deep into personal beliefs or human rights, and there can also be consequences to that choice, such as the military or government becoming aware of what I was doing and getting arrested, or having the military use my creations for warfare.

     My first reason: I would probably be too afraid to mess with life and death in such a manner. The military and government would most likely hear about what I have been doing, as I said above, and then my life would become very hard and the government would want to know my secrets about how I created that life.

     My second reason: I do not want to "play God" as some people call it. I am no different than any human being on this world, and I as a human do not have a right to create other humans. I am not better, I do not deserve the right to make something that is, in a sense, equal to me. Also, the beings I created could turn against me, and that would probably be one of the worst things that could happen. After working hard, or not, depending on how difficult the process is, I would not want my work to turn against me and having me end up wounded or killed.

    So no, I would not use this power at all, and these several reasons why are proof of that fact. In fact, I would probably try to forget I had that power in the first place, or get rid of the information that I had received in order to reduce the temptation to use it, as I most likely will have. I would not give this power to someone else, because I do not want to put that kind of pressure on the morals and values that someone else has, and all the hardships that will come with that power and responsibility.

Frankenstein

We are about to read the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in my English 11 class. I do not know what to expect, other than it is an older book and is a higher "reading level" than what we normally deal with. Also, it was a surprise to find out that a woman wrote this male dominated book. From what I have heard most of the characters in this book are male and therefore Shelley had to write from a male's point of view and try to determine how a male would react in different situations.

A few questions we were asked were: Can man create life? and, Does man have the right to create life?

Currently, we have technology to clone and therefore "create" life in a sense. So, the answer to that quesiton would be yes, we mankind can create life.The second question is a little more complicated. I do not think I have the power to determine what mankind's rights are, but I think that man should not clone or otherwise create life. Once mankind has that power, I am absolutely certain that a least one person will take that power and become extremely greedy and take it too far. Once we have the power to clone effectively, scientists will start to mess with genetics and altering, in order to make the animals we clone for food grow larger or produce more tasty meat, or try and clone humans to become war machines like in the popular video game series Metal Gear Solid.

Two more questions asked were: Do you believe in the sorcerer's stone? Immortality?

No, I do not believe that the sorcerer's stone exists, can exist, and immortality cannot be gained. This, in my mind, is impossible. There is nothing that can stop the aging process, other than cryogenically freezing an organism, which I am not sure if that is possible now.

Word of 2012 - Triumph

    I chose this word because I have a few goals for 2012 that I want to overcome this year. Hopefully I can use this word as my theme for the year, keep it beside me as I accomplish my goals and, by the end of the year, say that I did triumph over everything I planned.

 I want to pass from a senior NCO in CAP to become an officer. Right now I am a Cadet Chief Master Sergeant, and I have been for maybe 2 and a half months now. Hopefully by February I will be able to make my promotion and become a cadet officer.

  I want to keep training on my physical fitness so that I can start riding my back the three miles to school in the morning and three miles back in the afternoon, and hopefully those six miles every day will help prepare me for the Marines later on in my life.