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  1. How does the attempt to control and codify plants and animals lead to eugenics? How are both of these views optimistic? Pessimistic?

The idea behind eugenics is to improve the quality of the human race. This is done by enforcing desirable traits and attempting to eliminate undesirable traits. (Dictionary.com, n.d.) If our society can codify and control plants and animals, they would be able to change natures course. The way this would work would result in plants and animals being permanently altered. This leads to eugenics because if we can change our plants and animals, why not change our children? We can improve what we want and eliminate what we don’t.

In light of these possibilities, an optimist would see this as positive because it eliminates the disabled or undesired. This could eliminate things that people do not want in their animals or plants. Instead of having to deal with it later on, the possibility is eliminated. This logic can be used to help reduce or eliminate cancer or mental retardation. On the other hand, a pessimist would see this completely different. If you’re changing the codes that define what things are, there wont be any difference between everyone in the future. We will all be identical. Another point that should be noted is how do we know what are the perfect traits we should have? Are we just going to eliminate entire races or groups because they don’t fit our new standard? If we made everyone perfect, we would never survive. The world cannot survive if everyone is an Alpha male or female.

Dictionary.com (n.d.) Eugenics http://www.dictionary.com/browse/eugenics 2DEC16

 
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