` As the world develops, people pay less attention to the moral problems instead of caring more about entertainment. With the help of the high-speed technology, people have many ways to get different ways of entertainment. As a result, the lure of the colorful world blinds people from the real world. People know the ethical response but they now choose to ignore those problems to get entertained. In the essay by Dalai Lama, “Ethics and the New Genetics”, he realizes the unstoppable development does harm to the ethical response. People’s understanding of morality are not as advanced as the development of the world. In the end, people simply choose to get benefits from the whole but do not try to think critically to consider about the ethical
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As the technology develops, many dreams are gradually becoming true. People can use the digital test to make the gene project so that we can change the gene to make them better in condition and get rid of the bad characteristics. This is a good way to make the food healthier and having more nutrition to help people and also help people to avoid the genetic disease. As people still stay in the benefits that technology brings us, many drawbacks also come concomitantly. People who find that the gene project to be a big chance to make a fortune may use this in a bad way. Just like the Dalai Lama’s idea of “above all-the need to ensure that we hold compassion as the key motivation for all ore endeavors and that it is combined with a clear awareness of the wider perspective, including long-term consequences” (69). People may find out that the high speed of technology development has already stay ahead of the moral development. There is a large potential that people will lose the moral direction when they face the big benefit and forget the moral motivation in the first place. The compassion is no longer a useful tool to chase the right direction which is set before the journey started. When people are seduced by the money they may forget the moral compassion and when people feel happy for the entertainment, they also do not care about the moral compassion. People in the past eat lobsters for survival reasons so they need to find something to eat but nowadays people do not need to eat certain stuff to survive since they are presented with much choices besides lobsters. People need to realize that if we only eat lobsters for selfish gustatory pleasure and we are totally cruel. In the essay, David Foster Wallace states that “As far as I can tell, my own way of dealing with this conflict has been to avoid thinking about the whole unpleasant thing.” (466) To
As the technology develops, many dreams are gradually becoming true. People can use the digital test to make the gene project so that we can change the gene to make them better in condition and get rid of the bad characteristics. This is a good way to make the food healthier and having more nutrition to help people and also help people to avoid the genetic disease. As people still stay in the benefits that technology brings us, many drawbacks also come concomitantly. People who find that the gene project to be a big chance to make a fortune may use this in a bad way. Just like the Dalai Lama’s idea of “above all-the need to ensure that we hold compassion as the key motivation for all ore endeavors and that it is combined with a clear awareness of the wider perspective, including long-term consequences” (69). People may find out that the high speed of technology development has already stay ahead of the moral development. There is a large potential that people will lose the moral direction when they face the big benefit and forget the moral motivation in the first place. The compassion is no longer a useful tool to chase the right direction which is set before the journey started. When people are seduced by the money they may forget the moral compassion and when people feel happy for the entertainment, they also do not care about the moral compassion. People in the past eat lobsters for survival reasons so they need to find something to eat but nowadays people do not need to eat certain stuff to survive since they are presented with much choices besides lobsters. People need to realize that if we only eat lobsters for selfish gustatory pleasure and we are totally cruel. In the essay, David Foster Wallace states that “As far as I can tell, my own way of dealing with this conflict has been to avoid thinking about the whole unpleasant thing.” (466) To