Scientist's Responsibility In Frankenstein

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). The monster is left uncaring and lonely which makes him seek revenge at Victor. Instead, of …show more content…
In the article “Replaceable You” Geoff Brumfiel writes about the new era of technology in bionic limbs and organs. The prosthetic limbs and artificial organs are made up of metal, plastic and circuitry. “ Engineers created a “robot” called the Bionic Man-using prosthetic limbs and artificial organs worth $1 million-to showcase how much of the human body can now be rebuilt with metal, plastic and circuitry” (Brumfiel 68). 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 they will malfunction. If this happens a scientist should be responsible because if he/she wasn’t sure it was capable of working then he/she shouldn’t have released the creation to the public. A scientist is at fault for any damage done by his/her creation because it was his/her