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Essay / Escape from Spiderhead by Dr. Abnesti - 1336
Inspired by Escape from SpiderheadFor centuries, scientific development has been a hot topic among the media. Especially since the invention of cloning technology, more and more debates about the development model and the power gained through such development have worried people all over the world. There is no doubt that rapid development has brought us many conveniences and greatly improved our lives, however, when it comes to people's growing recognition of our nature and unpredictable human nature, like Dr. Abnesti in the fictional story, Escape from Spiderhead. . Based on my readings and experiences, I believe that humans must take each stage of scientific development extremely seriously. As we now see, people are discussing the contradiction between science and morality, and furthermore, that the power that science currently has is already too sufficient to destroy us, for example nuclear energy. The pros and cons of scientific development shape science itself, and are sometimes controversial. Additionally, I think that scientific morality and control of power are two major issues that needed to be controlled. Not to eliminate them, but to control them. The experiment carried out in the fictional story concerns biological research into the causality and modification of human emotions. Mentioned in the story that, mastered by Dr. Abnesti in the Spiderhead laboratory, the research group conducts a series of experiments on living humans, in which they inject the models (the human ones) with different drugs which, according to the scenario, work. differently by affecting each person's mood and abilities. Darkenfloxx TM, among which, is the most terrifying injection which causes extreme horror and suffering at the mental level. However, because of this medication I...... middle of paper ......enter-synthetic-life-form>2. Walters, LeRoy. “Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.” » Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 14.1 (2004): 3-38.3. "The world's nuclear power plants in operation". Nuclear Energy Institute. April. 2014. Internet. May 26. 2014. < http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/World-Statistics/World-Nuclear-Power-Plants-in-Operation>4. Saunders, George. “Escape from Spiderhead.” New Yorkers (2010): 111-119.5. Lyell, Lord. “CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS: THE POOR MAN’S BOMB.” North Atlantic Assembly AN 255 STC(96) 10. North Atlantic Assembly, October 4, 1996. Web. May 26, 2014.6. Kass, Leon and James Q. Wilson, eds. The ethics of human cloning. American Business Institute, 1998.7. “Overview of the History of Nuclear Energy”. History of nuclear energy. World Nuclear Association, March 1, 2014. Web. May 26 2014.