Scientist’s Responsibility The person who doesn’t take responsibility is equivalent to a leader who doesn’t look after his people; spiraling into failure and destruction. Recently, the hoverboard caused an incident where a celebrity ended up in the emergency room. The people who made the hoverboard should be held responsible because their product injured someone. A scientist is responsible if a person is harmed by his/her new creation.
Similarly, Mary Shelley writes about a creation who goes crazy and kills the creator's family in her book “Frankenstein.” Victor abandons his monster concluding it was hideous. The monster gets angry and kills Victor’s smaller brother, William,“I had seen blooming and active in health, stretched on the grass livid and motionless; the print of the murderer’s finger was on his neck” (Shelley 111). Victor knows that it was the monster who killed his brother and it was his fault. The monster wants revenge and wants Victor to feel the pain that he felt when Victor left him uncaring and lonely. Instead, of Justine being put on trial,”Justine Moritz! Poor, poor …show more content…
In the article “Replaceable You” Geoff Brumfiel writes about the new era of technology in bionic limbs and organs. Prosthetic limbs and artificial organs are made up of “human body can now be rebuilt with metal, plastic and circuitry” (Brumfiel 68). Brumfiel is explaining how much technology has advanced that now plastic organs are available. What would happen if a person’s artificial heart just stopped working? No one can trust plastic and metal when it depends on a person’s life. Would you trust an artificial organ if you needed one? A prosthetic limb and artificial organ will work for about a year, but eventually will malfunction/break. It’s not the users fault because the user used what was given to him/her. Instead, it's the scientist fault if this happens because it is his/her product and
Similarly, Mary Shelley writes about a creation who goes crazy and kills the creator's family in her book “Frankenstein.” Victor abandons his monster concluding it was hideous. The monster gets angry and kills Victor’s smaller brother, William,“I had seen blooming and active in health, stretched on the grass livid and motionless; the print of the murderer’s finger was on his neck” (Shelley 111). Victor knows that it was the monster who killed his brother and it was his fault. The monster wants revenge and wants Victor to feel the pain that he felt when Victor left him uncaring and lonely. Instead, of Justine being put on trial,”Justine Moritz! Poor, poor …show more content…
In the article “Replaceable You” Geoff Brumfiel writes about the new era of technology in bionic limbs and organs. Prosthetic limbs and artificial organs are made up of “human body can now be rebuilt with metal, plastic and circuitry” (Brumfiel 68). Brumfiel is explaining how much technology has advanced that now plastic organs are available. What would happen if a person’s artificial heart just stopped working? No one can trust plastic and metal when it depends on a person’s life. Would you trust an artificial organ if you needed one? A prosthetic limb and artificial organ will work for about a year, but eventually will malfunction/break. It’s not the users fault because the user used what was given to him/her. Instead, it's the scientist fault if this happens because it is his/her product and