Why use technology to bring people down? If there is an option to enhance someone’s abilities to have knowledge over something, it would be nonsensical to ignore it. In the short story “Harrison Bergeron” equality is a must. If someone is different than another person in any way, it has to be changed. In most situations the person would have to be brought down to a lower level, therefore making everyone equal. In the story it would be acceptable to use biotechnological enhancements if it meant the society would be turned from dystopian to utopian, meaning they would lift up the ungifted to bring equality to everyone while giving them an advantage at the same time.
A place where society does not have to take time to make each person that is advanced be …show more content…
Nor should a person have to focus on lowering their abilities to match with their neighbor. In this specific situation, the people with higher intelligence or more strength are legitimately having to wear objects to weigh them down. Proving that here, “They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in” (1). Not only one person being physically harmed by this. In this statement “George winced. So did two out of the eight ballerinas” (1), it is clearing showing multiple people being affected. The next evidence proving harmful things are taking place, only goes on to show the pain these specific people are showing, is very serious. “Two of the eight ballerinas had collapsed to the studio floor, were holding their temples” (2). The evidence that the text is providing is proving more that it would be wiser to use the biotechnological advancements to improve everyones abilities, rather than using other technology to prevent them from performing to their full
A place where society does not have to take time to make each person that is advanced be …show more content…
Nor should a person have to focus on lowering their abilities to match with their neighbor. In this specific situation, the people with higher intelligence or more strength are legitimately having to wear objects to weigh them down. Proving that here, “They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in” (1). Not only one person being physically harmed by this. In this statement “George winced. So did two out of the eight ballerinas” (1), it is clearing showing multiple people being affected. The next evidence proving harmful things are taking place, only goes on to show the pain these specific people are showing, is very serious. “Two of the eight ballerinas had collapsed to the studio floor, were holding their temples” (2). The evidence that the text is providing is proving more that it would be wiser to use the biotechnological advancements to improve everyones abilities, rather than using other technology to prevent them from performing to their full