Alone Together By Sherry Turkle

Speaking of being in control of something or someone who matters, people will describe such behaviors from two completely different points of views. Specifically, as people who subjectively involve in controlling, they would satisfy with the feeling of managing their lives, and even become used to having their surroundings managed; for people who are being constrained or who play the role of outsiders, they would become uncomfortable with people who tell others to do something, and even generate serious judgements about controlling. Due to different opinions of people about the rightness or wrongness of control, both authors give out their explanations of the value of control. Sherry Turkle, the author of the essay of “Alone Together”, introduces …show more content…
Specifically, when people make important decisions that may involve in others’ benefits, they cannot just do everything by their own free will. Instead, they must consider what kinds of moral issues could be involved in this situation. For example, when Turkle interviews Miriam, a patient who is currently being accompanied by a therapeutic robot due to the breaking up with her son, she notices that, “In attempting to provide the comfort she believes it needs, she comforts herself”(Turkle 270). As it shows that Miriam’s son afford expensive cost of a delicate robot for avoiding generating any disputes with his mom. More importantly, he is actually controlling his mom’s emotion, keep her negative emotion away from his life. In this way, the moral issue like regular family relationship and parenthood are being violated since people try to control others’ opinions for applying to their own thinking. In a like manner, when Belkin introduces the medical situation patients’ parents are involved in, she also mentions the ethical conflict of conceiving another child for helping their previous children. Specifically, she stresses that, “If society gives its blessing to the use of one child to save another, then what would prevent couples from someday going through with the process but aborting...”(Belkin 6). Clearly, it generates potential conflicts which involve another human life. Like due to family’s financial condition, parents cannot afford to raise another child but to transplant part of the organ to their previous children. In this case, not only the use of another conceived bay in their sibling’s lives matters, but also his or her own potential value in the world must be counted in. Although it is pretty hard for people to figure out what they can control in fairly reasonable