2011年10月19日 星期三

Annotation1 (revised) Dilemma: Conservative safty or beneficial riskiness?

1. Because there was only one classmate gave me a feedback, I just add some context to answer her suggestion. Here she mentioned that there are not only flaws but also advantages from bio-technology. Because my standpoint is to against the way human control the power of lives, I write the last part to support my stand that there are actually high risks there if men try to control the power of lives. I also change my title of this annotation.


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Dilemma: Conservative safty or beneficial riskiness?


Jurassic Park” was a science fiction adventure film which filmed in 1993. The main issue of Jurassic Park is about whether men have the right or not to play the role of God. In this movie, scientists try hard to recreate dinosaurs. With high technology and biotechnology, scientists take bloods from mosquitoes inside the ambers which become fossils. Men successfully create extinctive dinosaurs 65 million years ago. It seems that human do control the power and secret of gene to overtop the whole ecosystem. Ecology is no more mysterious and delicate at all because human successfully break the code of eco- system. But is that true? Do men really control the power and rank above nature?
In the forepart of the movie, the birth of dinosaur is just like a miracle that enchanted all the characters except the mathematician Dr. Malcolm. Without other characters’ passion, Dr. Ian Malcolm shows distrustful attitude to the whole action and idea in the very beginning. “If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, expands to new places, and it crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously…but there it is.” Here Dr. Malcolm plays a role for audience to see things beyond scientists’ superficial and short victory from a detached way. The rational distrust challenge modern technology and remind audience that life is unique. It has no limitation that men cannot even try to change it in any unnatural way.
It is not the main problem to discuss whether men have the right or not to control the power of natural in this issue, instead, the most important question is, do men have the ability to control this kind of power and well-arrange it? From the example of the film Jurassic Park, scientists can recreate dinosaurs with high tech, but it doesn’t mean that men can arrange this power in a proper way. The billionaire investor, John Hammond tries to fight for his behavior and idea, “Our scientists have done things which nobody has ever done before.” But as Dr. Malcolm responses, it is “wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun”. No men can promise there won’t be any dangers after doing these huge changes. Most of the time human do the so-called invention is not for the real benefits for environment but actually hurt it through the improper way. In Jurassic Park, people cannot even image how catastrophic these creations cause that make their lives all in danger. If there is no absolute safe presupposition, and there won’t be any real absolute safe presupposition exists, then men have no right to play the role of God. “What you call discovery…I call the rape of the natural world.” Dr. Malcolm’s word perfectly defines men's behaviors which originate from ambition and desire to conquer the natural.

The dilemma between innovation of bio-technology and the danger of no ability to control the power is the most radical and urgently problem men have to face. There are advantages that benefit people’s lives from these innovations that we can’t deny, but still more unknown and uncontrollable dangers are hidden in the unexplored field. Should we ignore the potential problems just for the present benefits? Conservative attitude is safer than beneficial riskiness.

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