Imagine a society where your genetic composition inevitably decides your fate. Where individuals have been manipulated to be better, healthier, smarter and more attractive than you. In the film Gattaca, a realistic futuristic society is presented in which genetic engineering is prevalent. Vincent is a child born, in an antiquated practice verse the others. He dreams of traveling into space but his imperfect genes shatter his desires. Based upon his high risk of heart ailments he is denied admission to Gattaca, confining him to the occupation as a janitor, despite his ambition, knowledge and test scores. Inundated with desperation to achieve his aspirations, Vincent takes what he considers “extreme measures” and recruits Jerome Morrow, who
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What or who determines the worth of an individual? Not only is individuality lost, but laws are disregarded and love has taken on a different manner. Based upon Charles Taylor’s viewpoint, he would entertain this idea of society but most likely not agree; although the focus is taken off the individual and placed upon the well-being of society. People are now geared to see themselves as part of a larger order; instilling the purpose of meaning higher than self interest. While primarily interest is propelled toward competition, being the best possible, the outcome is one that is desirable. But for this idea to uphold, everyone needs access to genetic modifying, and it now becomes a requirement verse the inequality in Gattaca. This equality draws the line between a utopian and dystopian world. The potential for the utopia, is that all people are engineered compared to the dystopia, as the world is ideal but only to those who have the advantage of foolproof DNA. Issues then might arise between Taylor and this view in examining the “cost-benefit” analysis that becomes prominent. Every aspect of human life is now quantified, calculated and analyzed. The reality, for this reason focuses on genetic material as worth and your value is entirely dependent on a code sequence. Technology acts as a dominating impact on human life. Furthermore, the will of man is tainted, the very thing Taylor warns
What or who determines the worth of an individual? Not only is individuality lost, but laws are disregarded and love has taken on a different manner. Based upon Charles Taylor’s viewpoint, he would entertain this idea of society but most likely not agree; although the focus is taken off the individual and placed upon the well-being of society. People are now geared to see themselves as part of a larger order; instilling the purpose of meaning higher than self interest. While primarily interest is propelled toward competition, being the best possible, the outcome is one that is desirable. But for this idea to uphold, everyone needs access to genetic modifying, and it now becomes a requirement verse the inequality in Gattaca. This equality draws the line between a utopian and dystopian world. The potential for the utopia, is that all people are engineered compared to the dystopia, as the world is ideal but only to those who have the advantage of foolproof DNA. Issues then might arise between Taylor and this view in examining the “cost-benefit” analysis that becomes prominent. Every aspect of human life is now quantified, calculated and analyzed. The reality, for this reason focuses on genetic material as worth and your value is entirely dependent on a code sequence. Technology acts as a dominating impact on human life. Furthermore, the will of man is tainted, the very thing Taylor warns