Blog 26

This episode of Dollhouse helps me realize the differences in a population’s multitude of opinions. Included in the main argument, this episode and my real world connection, the survey on “Designer Babies”, show the differences between the opinions of an uneducated group and an educated group, respectively. Researching these differences led to a realization of how communicating and teaching society about a topic will lead to different views. This brings to the proposition that certain advancements that seem controversial in society would be accepted if only a bit more in-depth information on the research was introduced to the viewers. Especially in this era, society is being ignorant towards the potential that science holds for us. Advancements come with technology, but advancements can easily be halted when the someone stands up and proposes a problem, many times due to moral issues. If humanity is benefiting, there should be times where absurd morality should be shoved to the side. At the same time, checks-and-balances should be in order to not have the world go haywire. The world has learned this from the horrible experiments done within The Holocaust. Even though the experiments could be said to be beneficial in experimenting future medicinal purposes, the testing of humans would not be accepted anywhere. History is something to learn from. The real world connection shows the views of an educated audience. The results shown were of acceptance to the idea of “Designer Babies”, but it also allowed for the checks-and-balances, which was indicated by the disapproval of non-medicinal uses, such as perfecting the unborn baby. This gets me thinking, how reliable is the information within today’s news? When a reporter is asking random people on the street a question, should their answer really be taken into consideration when we don’t know how much knowledge they actually have on the topic? Once knowledge has been contributed, then shall we make our conclusions on a controversial issue.