Daniel Keyes 'Flowers For Algernon'
Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow’s children. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, there is an intellectually disabled man named Charlie Gordon that is also going to operated on to promote his intelligence. As informed scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of babies. That means that people are making their babies with requested traits: intelligence, eye color, athleticism, and disease prevention. They are known as designer babies. As informed, scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of babies. That means that people are developing ways to edit the DNA of babies That means that people are making their babies with requested traits: intelligence, eye color, athleticism, and disease prevention. They are known as designer babies. A designer baby is someone who has been genetically engineered in vitro for pre-selected traits in a glass petri-dish, very from lowering the risk of a genetic disorder to gender selection. It is not okay to change humans by artificial means.
In the scientific short story “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon should not have had the operation to make him intelligent. Charlie was better before the operation. For …show more content…
Artificially modifying humans is unnecessary, immoral, and should not take place. Human engineering and “Flowers for Algernon” relate to what’s going on today; scientists are performing operations to modify humans which is similar to the operation that Charlie went through to make him smarter. | Human engineering can change the future in a negative way. It fails more than successes, so it would lower the population because of the millions of failures. Also, it can send the moms into spiralling despair because of their kids who have unsuccessfully went through an operation. This topic is important for both its positives and
In the scientific short story “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon should not have had the operation to make him intelligent. Charlie was better before the operation. For …show more content…
Artificially modifying humans is unnecessary, immoral, and should not take place. Human engineering and “Flowers for Algernon” relate to what’s going on today; scientists are performing operations to modify humans which is similar to the operation that Charlie went through to make him smarter. | Human engineering can change the future in a negative way. It fails more than successes, so it would lower the population because of the millions of failures. Also, it can send the moms into spiralling despair because of their kids who have unsuccessfully went through an operation. This topic is important for both its positives and