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Technology exists in countless forms. From sticks used to pry apart clamshells, to nuclear plants that generate energy. One thing that all technologies have in common, is that advance the human race. Technology acts as a catalyst to bring about new world views, fix problems, and bring answers to questions that could never of been answered in the past. Medicinal technologies in particular bring incredible benefits to mankind. With new medical technologies emerging, society must question their morality, and more specifically, how they should be used.Throughout history, medicine has existed in many forms. As the technology of cultures advanced, so did the applications of medicine. In the early 1700’s if a person’s liver failed, they would certainly be doomed to death. Who would of thought at that time that a transplant could of occurred, that a liver from a different animal, or another human being could save that person’s life. Though there were theories at that time of organ transplants, the technology needed to facilitate such an operation was neither present, nor even imagined. The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have ushered in amazing breakthroughs of medical technology. Everythingfrom a person’s “heart and corneas, liver and lungs, cartilage, skin, hair, bone, nerves” can be transplanted to another individual in today’s modern society. The ability to transplant these bodyparts is an extraordinary feat for humanity.As Technology has grown and flourished around the globe, procedures are becoming possible that people in the past could only conceive of as science fiction. Among these are medical applications to the human body. Implanting foreign devises to take the place of malfunctioning organs and the insertion of replacement organs are some of the best examples. What is so interesting about these abilities are not the outcomes, whether they sustain or end life,but of the very philosophy of these actions. It’s now possible to ask the question; what makes a person human? Or even what makes a person an individual? Is it a person’s mind, or what physical matter they are composed of that make a person unique? In the future people could be discriminated against for being fake, non-pure humans. Different sets of human rights could even be developed for those untouched by the deviant hands of man. In a world of ever changing cultures and societal norms, if technology moves faster than intelligence, unthinkable problems could await.People can live longer and in better conditions, which can be as much trouble as it is good. New and amazing operations can be performed to both save lives and make lives better. Getting a fever or a harsh cold can easily be treated using up to date medicine. Implants from steel hips, to bigger breasts, to a stranger’s liver give people a greater freedom to live than ever before. But there are also many side effects of modern medicine. As people are saved from ailments that would most certainly of take their lives in previous generations, their genes stay in circulation. The human gene pool is thus getting weaker. By letting the weak survive with the strong,our strength as a species is waning. Groups in the past have attempted to craft their cultures around sets of “perfect” genes. By eliminating people with faulty or not up to par genes, a pure and clean gene pool can exist. Though as good as it sounds from a genetic point of view, the idea in and among itself is quite wrong. To do this today, millions of people would have to be killed or exiled because of things they hold inside them that cannot be changed. This surely will not happen anytime soon. So everyone must live with the fact that our gene pool is becoming more tainted each day. Every person that passes on diabetes, or high rates of heart attacks, is contributing in very small ways. No blame can be given, it’s our species, it’s our gene pool, so we must fight it


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