I would like to discuss about the question about whether men have the rights or not to “control” lives. Control here includes creating, changing or wiping out lives unnaturally. Like the most famous example of Dolly the Sheep, is it agreeable for men to create, give or even change lives which is not nature? A man has 250 children in the world but most of them he even won’t know in his later lives. Why? Being a donator of the sperm bank, the problems he brings may be too serious to image: incest and immoral sins happen unwillingly. Or is it moral for men to create genetically modified organism (GMO) or genetically-modified foods? Do they harm men’s bodies or the whole ecological system? Even with the proper reasons or with suitable plans, will it be dangerous or harmful to create lives by technology?
The issue of “lives” is being argued endlessly. Technology today can provide men a chance to challenge nature. Creating lives through the natural way is the most simple and necessary behavior in the ecosystem, but how about cloning, changing or even creating lives through an unnatural way? From excitement to fearfulness, men start to think about the dilemma and try to find the balance of lives. Can Men replace God? Or is it actually a self-destructive course of action? I incline to agree the opposite side.
I would like to make a deeper inquiry from the texts like movies and novels. There are three subject matters included in this issue. They are Jurassic Park, Frankenstein and My Sister’s keeper. From the three source materials, we can see different levels and types of creatures’ ideas and actions which they try to convey their own will -how do they protest and fight back to their own creators for their own lives. In Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs alter their DNA automatically and break the limitation that human set to control the situation. In Frankenstein, we hear a monster’s pain and anger from his heart. From its accusation we start to think over is it fair or not to create lives in a non-natural way. In My Sister’s Keeper, we see the contradiction between live and death. Here eugenics is also a controversial issue that worth to probe into.
Through the three levels of creatures: animal, monster and human being, we see the unpredictable characteristic of lives. No matter whether with emotion and wisdom or not, lives cannot be controlled.
