On the one hand it is incredible and fantastic with the possibilities the technological civilization gives human beings. On the other hand many surgeons disapprove of Rosen. As Dr. John Hugill says “it is far out, totally beyond mainstream medicine”. Who can decide whether it is right or not when it is considered normal that every year in the western world two million people undergo plastic surgeries simply to improve in appearance. It would be one thing, if people did only get plastic surgeries of their own free will, but unfortunately this is not the case. In the west there is a
global pandemic of Body Dysmorphic Disorder, where people find their bodies imperfect and due to this have a lack of self-confidence. Also the American military are interested in the perfect human in the form of super soldiers. This has also become possible by enhancing the human hearing with cochlear implants.
At least some of the opportunities are carrying conviction as only positive. With the help from the science of gene therapy it can be possible to cure illnesses as cancer and aids which are very serious today, but in the future it might be easier to cure. The other way round the evolution in the medical technology will also be abused by athletes who wish to cheat.
Technology has come to the point where it is possible to design babies with help from the gene therapy. It can be constructive with the opportunity to come for a genetic counselling and have amniocentesis which makes the doctors apple to avoid inborn disorders. Nancy Smithers declares in the article “A modern Baby”, how she is suspicious about who should be able to draw the line for whether the baby is good enough to be their baby.
Unfortunately the future will always stay unknown. No matter how much the human civilization advances in technological science, we are not able to foresee how our choices will affect the future. However, we can always discuss the ethical view of the modern technology, so we have made clear, what we can accept the future to be like, and what we certainly can not accept. How should it be true that there are no moral borders for how far the human being can continue to play God?
On the face of modern technology and plastic surgery it appears unbelievable and terrifying that it has become normal that the conditions for beauty have become the surgeon’s knife. Many of the cosmetic surgeries are a risk healthy people still wish to undergo. What has made the picture of beauty so distorted that it has even come so far people want to decide the looks of their own child? When a mother has amniocentesis, is it then fair that people should be able to decide who are desired and who are unwanted? Where will this alarming situation end? It must be a problem when everybody tries to become perfect, when such a thing does not exist. The more we try to turn out to be perfect; the more we will always be more and more dissatisfied with ourselves. So the modern technology will not give us perfect human beings but people with less self-confidence.
We are supposed to discuss the ethical rights of what we do with the world, even though it might not be possible to stop the trend, which is not desirable, we can lead the direction of the advance.
Text number one “I’m having my wings done” is a non-fiction passage. This can be seen in structure among other things. The text is an article with a headline, subheading and paragraphs. Whereas text number 4 “Something New” is a fiction story. The difference is that text 4 only has a title and then the text, which is not divided into passages, but only contains line spacing.
The paragraphs in text 1 makes it fast to get an overview of the article, so you fast can find the facts in the morning paper. While the meaning in text 4 is not the get a fast outline, but to read and understand the points in the short story.
The language is also different in the fiction and non-fiction texts. In the article the time is present, only except when something historical is introduced. All the statements are supported with quotations from experts and the language is high-class. In text 4 the time is the past, which is typical for non-fiction stories. There is nothing in the text to state the truth (which must be considered natural, when it is a non-fiction short story). The language is ordinary and everyday English.
