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Human Modification, a most questionable proposition  The concept of Human Modification is grossly unethical from several standpoints. Its ideology is rationalized from two basic camps of philosophical thought that both justify it from the standard of ends justifying the means. The first of these is Eugenics, first devised by Francis Galton but also championed by such personalities as Margaret Sanger, Adolph Hitler, Bertrand Russell, and Charles Davenport. The second of these is Transhumanism, the brainchild of Julian Huxley but also championed by Ronald Bailey, Isaac Asimov, and David Pearce. Three problems particular to these two philosoph

Social Security, a Study Social Security was started by President Franklin Roosevelt under the ideal that every American should be able to enjoy a comfortable retirement. At the time it was not intended that every person must participate nor was it a large percentage of participants’ wages.  Since that time the situation has reversed and it has become a noteworthy political topic in a very different light, particularly concerning how it affects and is affected by the national debt.  Beginning with Richard Nixon’s dipping into it and the declining of birth rates in the generations since the Baby Boomers, then culminating in Lyndon

I want to live in a world where no one has to come out. I want nobody to ever have to go through that emotional and physical torture. I want there to be no reason to come out. Because in this new world, it wouldn't matter! Nobody would care who another person loves, because it's love and none of their business! I want to live in a world where no one cares. I want apathy, not acceptance. Because, there's no need for acceptance because there's no chance of rejection! There's nothing wrong with it, so rejection and persecution are logically ruled out. I don't want to hear this dialogue ever again "I'm gay." "Good for you!"  Good for y

A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hand even for beneficial purposes-will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.                                John Stuart Mill, 1859 When I was five or six years old my grandpa gave me my first knife. It was an old folding knife with a two-inch blade. My grandpa had carried it in his pocket for years but had finally replaced it with a new one and passed it on to me. I was so proud of it that I showed it to each of my three brothers one at a time and then went looking for anyone else that I could show it to. My mother was hesit

 Prosthetics have been a part of society for a long time, beginning as crude peg legs on pirates and gradually becoming more lifelike as technology has advanced. The first big step was to actually make the faux limbs resemble the shape of real limbs, and the result was a series of plastic molds that were attached together by metal hinges, like the limb worn by Scarlet Johansen's character in The Horse Whisperer. The leg limb served its basic purpose of supporting weight while walking, but it was difficult to move any faster than that. Then a leg for faster movement was invented, and it looked like a putter with the bottom part able to spring

 James Loewen could not be any more right about how history class has gone downhill. Today, history is nothing but nonsense, a giant list of facts that students aren't even intended to remember. The teachers do "withdraw some of their energy from their courses" and settle for a boring pursuit of what the textbook, which is a copy of every other textbook in the United States, has to say. And those very books, since they are not updated, are chock full of errors, serving to "mar American histories". What is the point of learning a subject if its problems are not corrected? It would be like studying a flat earth that had other planets and a sun

 The Scramble for Africa of the late 1800's proved to be one of the most savage races for dominance over land and people ever exhibited in history. By a ruthless "conquest over the earth" (Conrad 4), Europeans murdered an estimated twenty million Africans after blatantly disrespecting the Africans' humanity by shackling them into slavery. That's more corpses than the result of the Holocaust (Marsh 1)! Though the Price family of Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible didn't arrive in Africa until 1959, nearly eighty years after the raw beginnings of colonialism there, the quest for dominion over the still-untamed Congo had not yet ceased. E

Two drawers and a shaving kit. A life time of achievements and accomplishments, of children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren's love whittled down to two drawers and a shaving kit. This society doesn't have the greatest reputation in regards to the care of its elderly. In other countries, they revere and respect their elderly and their wisdom, whereas here in America, we act like we care about everything they have done for us, and underneath the façade we ship them away to forgotten "nursing" homes and wipe our minds of all they have done for our lives. My family is no exception. In 2001, my great-grandmother's Alzheimer's gre