Can It Change Who We Are At Our Core?

In an ever evolving society, the increased use of technology has become a staple in our day to day lives. With the constant advancements of technology the ideology of cloning has now become a reality. The increasing use of science today is slowly leading to the development of cloning and genetic selection. By altering the genetic make-up of a being, scientists have brought about several questions on how the population would adjust to the “super-beings,” and what benefits and consequences both human and non-humans would gain with their creations? Authors Francis Fukuyama, who wrote “Human Dignity,” and The Dalai Lama, writer of “Ethics and the New Genetics,” has called into question the use of cloning and how it could possibly affect others. With the creation of “super-beings,” humans would ultimately suffer a bigger separation from each other and create unfairness among the human species such as a stronger and more intelligent being.

People believe that being transgender is like violating the will of God. I slightly agree with that because most religious people believe that God made you to be a boy or a girl. It is proven that biologically males have stronger muscles that possibly can make them better at certain things, such as sports, than regular males. It is the same with females. They undergo sex reassignment surgery which makes them look more like a female. Most believe that trans discrimination is just a type of mental disorder and I strongly disagree with that. Critics believe it is confusing for that person. Although people argue that gender discrimination isn’t an environmental issue, it STILL is an

Transgendered people in America have made many great strides since the 1990s. They have encountered violence, lack of health care, and the loss of homes, jobs, family and friends. There have been many phases of the struggle of being transgendered in America over the years. The current phase we must be in now is equal rights. There are many variations of discrimination against the transgendered community. In our society we simply do not like what we do not understand. It is easier to discriminate than to try and understand. We are all created different and we should appreciate our differences. The change must come by addressing the views of the public. There is much justification in the unequal rights of transgendered peoples. The Human

The problem with transgender rights is that they are not treated as basic human rights. The main cause of this problem is that some people look at it as "not in the norm" or "out of the ordinary" and as a result, transgender people are either out casted, bullied, beaten, killed or denied certain rights. A human male wanting to transition into a human female and vice versa should not make them less than exactly what they are, a human-being. A possible solution would be for people to take the time to research and educate or interact with more transgender people and learn something about their decision instead of going into the problem blind with the assumption that all transgender people are not normal.

However, it can be portrayed as a positive. dehumanization in a positive sense can be used to describe the alternative, value-system that Robert learns from animals. Traditionally valuing dehumanization is often portrayed negatively because the traditional outlook is to see humans as superior to animals and to put intelligence above

Transgendered individuals are 25 times more likely to attempt suicide than the general population. They tend to be live in abject poverty often surviving n less than $10,00 per year household income compared to the rest of the population. They are more likely to face harassment and physical assault, with transgenders that are people of colour faring worse than all other races across the board. Many

To examine this possibility, Garreau interviewed Nick Bostrom, co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association. Bostrom shows his agreement with human transcendence by asserting that “Technological progress makes it harder for people to ignore the fact that we might actually change the human nature” (qtd. in Garreau, 242).

The governmental perpetuation of the myth that people who do not identify with their assigned gender at birth have a mental illness enforces public misunderstanding, fear, and hate. When government agents prohibit the gathering of information about trans individuals, they close themselves off from understanding the values and motives, of a large portion of the population. The government perpetuating the misconception that trans-gendered individuals are “mentally ill” encourages citizens to fear people who are not like them. Sustaining a culture of ignorance and

Fukuyama believed that once we are able to genetically alter our genes to make humans “perfect”, a rift would appear between present day humans and post-humans. Consequently, biomedical engineers are believed to be getting closer and closer to making DNA altercation a reality. And what Fukuyama says is that the very first victim of transhumanism might very well be equality. Post-humans would consider themselves as enhanced individuals believing themselves to be superior to the present day humans, and thus causing a divide between the latter and the

Both Shepard and Istvan make strong, well thought out points in regards to transhumanism and the implications it will have on society and individual’s morals and “personal responsibilities”. But Shepard’s article holds more credibility, he uses better sources in regards to reliability, and he writes from more of an academic standpoint (holds more credible/pertinent information).

Transgenderism has appeared for millennia, theoretically dating as far back as Ancient Egypt with Queen Hatshepsut and undoubtedly in Ancient Rome with Emperor Elagabalus (CBC News). However, transgenderism is a fallacy, created to become a part of a more privileged class. The Jeffersonian belief that race is a biologically and ethnically determined thing was created as a justification to support a master-slave caste system. Whereas race is a social construct, in my belief, gender is something that isn’t tied to your lineage, but rather something that’s determined at conception based on having an X or Y chromosome. If anyone could change their “race” then everyone would be changing to the class with more privileges, whereas with transgenderism there is an exponential amount more cases and even so, there are countless cases of people changing gender to an opposing sex that doesn’t have the given privileges of the one that they were born with. Furthermore, with transracial identifying people there is a disproportionate number of people changing to the caste with more advantages for the given person, in this case Rachel Dolezal, rather than the other way

“It challenges religious stances formulated over many cultures” (Edwards, 2017, p. 2). Creating the ideal human goes against the beliefs of many because the process changes simple nature that religious people are not willing to adapt to. Parents need “[t]o appreciate children as gifts, to accept them as they come, not as objects of our design or products of our will or instruments of our ambition” (Sandel, 2004, p. 5). By altering a fetus to rid of an illness changes the “normal” sequences of life that a person is supposed to follow. Modifying a baby changes a person into an object. Meaning, the parents are given a blueprint and are able to change individual characteristics and appearance factors to suit the parents proposition of a perfect baby. This expels the element of surprise which is watching a child grow older because the parents already know the final outcome. “The deeper danger is that they represent a kind of hyperagency - a promethean aspiration to remake nature, including human nature, to serve our purposes and satisfy our desires” (Sandel, 2004, p. 5). This practice is teaching a person to be vain and not accept anything but the best. Also, enabling the parent to have superior feelings over their children. Having the power to choose each characteristic of the fetus is in some ways inhumane. Sandel, 2004, states “[t]he problem with eugenics and genetic engineering is that they represent the one-sided triumph of willfulness over giftedness, of dominion over reverence, of molding over beholding” (p.

Envision a world where nano sized robots can burrow themselves into your skin just by touching something or perhaps explode within you on command. Consider perchance, a world were humans have collective thoughts and can generate the processing power of a super computer. Sounds like something out of an awesome dream or a nightmare, depending on how you perceive it. These are just some of the ideas that are presented in transhumanism. Transhumanism can be explained as the belief that the human race can advance past its current physical and intellectual confines through the use of technology (Bostrom, 2014). In the current world we live in, we are limited by a number of factors, many of these include the scientific limitations and the properties of physics. On the other side of the limitations, lay the concepts of morality and ethical issues. Along with those concepts include how this technology correlates to our current world. In the novel The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, humans live alongside nanobots (and various other technology) in a transhumanist world. In this advanced world, the ideas of morality and ethics are still present within the human race. In many aspects, the morality and ethical issues that humans encounter today are reencountered in this transhuman world.

On the most surface level, human genetic engineering and human genetic modification are a new and rapidly developing field of science that deals with directly altering the DNA (genetic makeup) of a living human cell. From early science fiction to the present day, taking control of humans’ gen es and directing the flow of evolution has been a subject of debate for many people. Human genetic engineering or HGE tends to bring up thoughts of dystopian futures where altering DNA has unexpectedly resulted in horrible mutant humans that can’t survive and thus the human race perishes, but this is not necessarily the outcome. Since genetic engineering is an emerging field of science, there are still many moral and ethical issues that need to be addressed before continuing research. Atheists and theists both have valid reasons to support / resist the continuation of this field of science. For the purpose of this paper, it will be assumed the reader has a reasonable understanding of the terms atheism, theism, DNA, genes, genome, and how a persons DNA (their genotype) essentially dictates the physical appearance and abilities that person portrays (their phenotype).

Transgender people are no strangers to society: the concept of not feeling comfortable in one's birth-assigned gender has been around since man can remember. It's quite puzzling to see that many centuries later, people still treat transgender people of an alien-like nature, of some sort of non-human species. Transgender people have been discriminated for long enough. The discrimination sent towards them is wrong: they're just humans who made changes to their lives for the better as all people have. Transgender people are regular people who do not deserve the amount of discrimination directed towards them as they get right now.