While the definition of ethics may be different in the eyes of different people, most individuals have a certain limit to their behaviour. An exception to this statement is none other than one of the main characters in the novel, Crake. In Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Crake is a character who has a bright, young mind in his earlier years, but seems to have a gradually increasing obsession with his idea of perfectionism as the years go by. Over many years, Crake realizes that there are many qualities about the human race that he finds to be negative. Crake feels the need to do something about this, which is why he decides to work on a project that he feels would benefit humanity, but actually causes destruction. While Crake has shown examples
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During their school years, when Crake and Jimmy used to watch explicit content together, Crake would use his Uncle Pete’s password via a hacking method so that he and Jimmy could gain access to the websites with an even higher explicit content, all the while poor Uncle Pete would have to bear the charges without the knowledge of who is actually behind the charges. “Crake used his Uncle Pete’s private code, via a complicated method he called a lily-pad labyrinth...That way when Uncle Pete got the bill he couldn’t find out who’d run it up.” (Atwood 86). On one end of the spectrum is Jimmy who is more compassionate. An example of this is when he feels sorry for the Pigoons at OrganInc because he felt that they spent too much time doing nothing. But on the opposite end of the spectrum is Crake who even in his adolescent years, shows a lack of ethics towards his own blood relative. “Some people base ethical decisions on principles of justice, equality, impartiality, and rights. This is the justice perspective. But others base their decisions on a care perspective, which the need to preserve relationship and minimize hurt takes precedence over considerations of justice and rights.” (Andre). Using these two methods to base an ethical decision on, we can apply both of them to Crake and see how …show more content…
As head of RejoovenEsense and access to a plethora of scientific resources, the opportunities are endless as to what Crake could accomplish. Crake believes that the other pharmaceutical companies are creating diseases instead of curing them. With this golden opportunity, Crake could have countered the very thing he despised about these pharmaceutical companies. “”That’s what they’d have called it. They’d have said he was about to destroy an elegant concept. They’d have said they were acting for the general good.”” (Atwood 212). Instead, Crake took the unethical and hypocritical route and let his power get the best of him by using his resources to develop a virus that in the end, exterminated the entire human race. Scientific research is about developing new methods and ideas that benefit humanity, not destroy it. “Many of the norms of research promote a variety of other important moral and social values, such as social responsibility, human rights, animal welfare, compliance with the law, and health and safety.” (Resnik). Crake was a “wild beast” loosed upon humanity due to his violation of ethics in scientific research among other
During their school years, when Crake and Jimmy used to watch explicit content together, Crake would use his Uncle Pete’s password via a hacking method so that he and Jimmy could gain access to the websites with an even higher explicit content, all the while poor Uncle Pete would have to bear the charges without the knowledge of who is actually behind the charges. “Crake used his Uncle Pete’s private code, via a complicated method he called a lily-pad labyrinth...That way when Uncle Pete got the bill he couldn’t find out who’d run it up.” (Atwood 86). On one end of the spectrum is Jimmy who is more compassionate. An example of this is when he feels sorry for the Pigoons at OrganInc because he felt that they spent too much time doing nothing. But on the opposite end of the spectrum is Crake who even in his adolescent years, shows a lack of ethics towards his own blood relative. “Some people base ethical decisions on principles of justice, equality, impartiality, and rights. This is the justice perspective. But others base their decisions on a care perspective, which the need to preserve relationship and minimize hurt takes precedence over considerations of justice and rights.” (Andre). Using these two methods to base an ethical decision on, we can apply both of them to Crake and see how …show more content…
As head of RejoovenEsense and access to a plethora of scientific resources, the opportunities are endless as to what Crake could accomplish. Crake believes that the other pharmaceutical companies are creating diseases instead of curing them. With this golden opportunity, Crake could have countered the very thing he despised about these pharmaceutical companies. “”That’s what they’d have called it. They’d have said he was about to destroy an elegant concept. They’d have said they were acting for the general good.”” (Atwood 212). Instead, Crake took the unethical and hypocritical route and let his power get the best of him by using his resources to develop a virus that in the end, exterminated the entire human race. Scientific research is about developing new methods and ideas that benefit humanity, not destroy it. “Many of the norms of research promote a variety of other important moral and social values, such as social responsibility, human rights, animal welfare, compliance with the law, and health and safety.” (Resnik). Crake was a “wild beast” loosed upon humanity due to his violation of ethics in scientific research among other