Tuesday, November 27, 2018

The end of Ethics and Morality

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Apparently ethics just don’t exist in the world anymore. Ethics is the motivation of right vs. wrong and a quest for moral values. So what is morality? Is it morally correct for TV commercials showing women leaving their Thanksgiving Dinner and their friends and family at the table to run off to a sale at some store because now they are open for business during dinner time on the only American holiday that spreads family values and togetherness? That looks ethically wrong to me. Is it correct that a scientist from China is now boasting that he was able to alter the genes on humans and now there is a child out there that is resistant to a certain disease? Is that ethically correct that we can and have created a master race of humans?
There is also cloning that is ethically correct now that even a famous Polo player has a barn full of his favorite horse cloned by 15 all with the exceptional ability at the sport. Soon will we clone the favorite child? Or worse yet can evil   Dictators clone themselves with altered genes so that there could be a Trump, Putin or Assad always around forever? It all sounds ethically wrong and quite frightening to me worse than the fictional favorite Halloween story of Frankenstein everyone is always intrigued about.
The author of the famous book was first listed as anonymous   because in 1818 women were discriminated in soo many ways that men wouldn’t even give the ladies credit for any sort of thinking. At least that has changed for the better to be ethically and morally correct. SHE wrote the Frankenstein story about the mad scientist who created the monster like man who became his own doom. Two centuries ago a young woman who was 18 years old warned us about all the Frankenstein’s that are now being created without any ethical or moral challenges. She is Mary Shelley and her handwritten manuscript is housed in Oxford University’s Library in England.
The original published copies of HER story was just 500 copies that have now blown up to many promotions in many ways of her classic story. She wrote it while being in a large house on a scary stormy night. If the weather wasn’t so bad, we probably wouldn’t have the story of Frankenstein to warn us NOT to mess with our creator’s intentions. But here we are, two centuries later doing the moral and ethical disaster in plain sight. Do you care?
Her story of the manmade monster turned into murderer has been translated into many languages, shown in many movies and adapted stage plays so by now everyone in the world knows the story. There are comic books and even the famous song called the Monster Mash always enjoyed on Halloween. A perk of the story was that the monster was often misunderstood just like the famous story of Beauty and the Beast where the monstrous bestial men were really sensitive guys just looking for love. There is always a woman to love a bestial man even the criminal men in prisons have wives.
We must not forget that Frankenstein is the name of the evil unethical and morally devoid scientist who created the sensitive creature longing to belong in society. Fiction now has become the new sad fact. Life as we know it has been changes forever now.

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