We won't have class Friday, so I'll write about the movie, the Island. It reminds me of the story of Frankenstien.
The sad truth is that everyday science marches closer to making sciencefiction reality. We can't even deal with the knowledge level we already have; morality doesn't keep pace. We are playing with dynamite and think we are gods while we don't even think others are human.
I don't know what it is about science-people look up to it as so pure, just a quest for knowledge. And yet no one can beat the medical experiments of the Nazis for premeditatied cruelety. Then there were the tropical disease experiments of the Japanese and the sysphillis experiments conducted on prison inmates by my government.
They say serial killers get started by inflicting pain or death on animals, then they graduate to peope. Maybe by reversing the order we can reform society by revolutionizing how we treat the animals. Maybe if we work for animal rights, we will create human beings with a consciousness of respect who learn to see all other humans as worthy to have access to all the good things in life. All along, people do the sorts of bad things to animals that the movie the Island depicts happening to clones. And besides PETA, no one seems to care.