World State, I hesitantly greet you. Transported from the past, I was welcomed with new scientific discoveries and societal ideas, but these innovations trouble me greatly. Although I whole-heartily support the motto "Community, Identity, Stability," your methods of achieving such a worthy motto are cynical. Yes, this includes Bokanovsky’s Process, a horrific scientific method that takes one fertilized egg and aggressively forces it to divide into ninety-six identical buds. The future children and citizens of your nation are dumped into alcohol, bombarded with harsh X-rays for eight minutes, and expected to survive such fatal procedures while being kept in incubators. This is morally incorrect. The government has subtly pressure men and women to give up their sperm and eggs--their future children--for money, a whole
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Ask yourself whether you controlled your own freedom or your rights. The government controlled the course of your life before you were born. In the past, the people had fundamental rights: the opportunity for happiness, individuality, and choice. All of that is gone. You may believe you are at the happiest point of your life, but is happiness serving the government as one of the millions of replaceable workers in a factory? Is that one's purpose: to work as a human machine until one dies? Should the government be able to force twins to work as machine part, such as gear, in a factory? In the past, one would view this as degradation of the humanity.
As a citizen of the World State, you do not have an identity; instead, you share it with your ninety-five siblings. Your community? It consists of millions of twins, slaved by factories. Stability? You sacrifice your life for the "good" of the nation, and you receive a measly six months' worth of pay in return. As human beings, we have passion for things greater than a factory job or stability of our corrupted government. We desire equality, opportunity, and civil
Ask yourself whether you controlled your own freedom or your rights. The government controlled the course of your life before you were born. In the past, the people had fundamental rights: the opportunity for happiness, individuality, and choice. All of that is gone. You may believe you are at the happiest point of your life, but is happiness serving the government as one of the millions of replaceable workers in a factory? Is that one's purpose: to work as a human machine until one dies? Should the government be able to force twins to work as machine part, such as gear, in a factory? In the past, one would view this as degradation of the humanity.
As a citizen of the World State, you do not have an identity; instead, you share it with your ninety-five siblings. Your community? It consists of millions of twins, slaved by factories. Stability? You sacrifice your life for the "good" of the nation, and you receive a measly six months' worth of pay in return. As human beings, we have passion for things greater than a factory job or stability of our corrupted government. We desire equality, opportunity, and civil