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He saved a bus! For NASA!
May. 8th, 2008 09:43 pm*flops* Tiiiiired! Tired tired tired tired tired T-T
On the plus side, I've finished all my finals \o/ On the minus side, my Culture and Tech final gave me a major headache -_-a Mostly the take-home part (augh! haet take-home tests, raar), whose directions I have copied here:
Locate yourself 40 years from now. Predictably, parents then, as now, will want what is best for their children. Picture yourself living in a highly competitive social/cultural environment where intelligence is highly prized and where you and others like you (but not everyone in society) can afford to enhance the "brain power" of your unborn children. The science/technology of this enhancement is still risky, although a great deal of advancement has happened in the past quarter centruy. Should you seek the help of genetic medicine to create a baby that most likely will be much more intellectually capable than you? To answer your question, please pick one of the ethical perspectives we have studied - traditional morality (Kass or Sandel), liberal morality (Agar), or postmodern morality (DeZengotita), explain how they would answer your question (including their reasoning), and then defend this reasoning against the other two perspectives.
My response, as written on the bottom of the sheet of paper:
THEIR perspective? THEIR reasoning? It's my hypothetical kid, shouldn't I be the one with an opinion? Wasn't the entire point of this class to develop our own opinions on morals of technology, etc? Why would I take a class just to learn, preach, and potentially practice what someone else believes? Where's the logic?!
The response I actually turned it: ( Euphemia's GMO )
SO glad that class is over. I am tired of being told to express other people's opinions, as if I have none of my own. Very not fun.
Anyhow. Went to my brother's final high school band concert last night instead of doing anything on the internet ^^a It was the big senior acknowledgment ceremony thing, too. See, each senior and parent(s) were called to walk on stage, receive a certificate and a gift (a fleece blanket with the band logo for the students, and a rose for the parents), and the band director shared a bit of information about the student in question. Tomas's cracked us up XD
Band Director: Tomas came back from vacation one year with a story about how he, uh. Invented a spaceship for mice? No, that's not it. Tomas, what did you do?
Dad: *whispers to him*
Band Director: Oh yes, that's right; he saved a bus! For NASA!
Socchan: ...XDD
That was either vastly understated, or vastly overstated. I'll figure out which when I dig up the post that details my brother's space-camp-bus-related exploit(s) later. Spaceship for mice. Pfft!
On the plus side, I've finished all my finals \o/ On the minus side, my Culture and Tech final gave me a major headache -_-a Mostly the take-home part (augh! haet take-home tests, raar), whose directions I have copied here:
Locate yourself 40 years from now. Predictably, parents then, as now, will want what is best for their children. Picture yourself living in a highly competitive social/cultural environment where intelligence is highly prized and where you and others like you (but not everyone in society) can afford to enhance the "brain power" of your unborn children. The science/technology of this enhancement is still risky, although a great deal of advancement has happened in the past quarter centruy. Should you seek the help of genetic medicine to create a baby that most likely will be much more intellectually capable than you? To answer your question, please pick one of the ethical perspectives we have studied - traditional morality (Kass or Sandel), liberal morality (Agar), or postmodern morality (DeZengotita), explain how they would answer your question (including their reasoning), and then defend this reasoning against the other two perspectives.
My response, as written on the bottom of the sheet of paper:
THEIR perspective? THEIR reasoning? It's my hypothetical kid, shouldn't I be the one with an opinion? Wasn't the entire point of this class to develop our own opinions on morals of technology, etc? Why would I take a class just to learn, preach, and potentially practice what someone else believes? Where's the logic?!
The response I actually turned it: ( Euphemia's GMO )
SO glad that class is over. I am tired of being told to express other people's opinions, as if I have none of my own. Very not fun.
Anyhow. Went to my brother's final high school band concert last night instead of doing anything on the internet ^^a It was the big senior acknowledgment ceremony thing, too. See, each senior and parent(s) were called to walk on stage, receive a certificate and a gift (a fleece blanket with the band logo for the students, and a rose for the parents), and the band director shared a bit of information about the student in question. Tomas's cracked us up XD
Band Director: Tomas came back from vacation one year with a story about how he, uh. Invented a spaceship for mice? No, that's not it. Tomas, what did you do?
Dad: *whispers to him*
Band Director: Oh yes, that's right; he saved a bus! For NASA!
Socchan: ...XDD
That was either vastly understated, or vastly overstated. I'll figure out which when I dig up the post that details my brother's space-camp-bus-related exploit(s) later. Spaceship for mice. Pfft!
