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The dark side

Through years of being rejected, Grant gives up and stops trying to be good

Social ejection can cause anger, anxiety, depression, jealousy, and sadness.

-you get discouraged when you don’t get out what you put in. Over time he built up so much anger and a grudge against his creator for giving him life in the first place. He found his creation to be not as meaningful as a human’s because he had no God to create him.

He was not bad natured but became that way when he was not accepted

If you can't have love, what's the point?

WC: 100

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Do you even clone, bro?

Bioethics is a discipline dealing with the ethical implications of biological research and applications, a moral discernment as it relates to medical policy and practice. Knowledge means helping people and improving our way of life, but throughout history, trial and error has been used to gain knowledge and learn more about science. This method is effective, but dangerous; especially when human (or animal) life is brought into it. Topics of genetic engineering, abortion, and cloning are all important in this topic. Any experiments involving  could introduce a lasting change to the human race, bigger than any trial and error experiment. What is our moral responsibility to the living things in our world?

WC: 112

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aight imma head out

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The Role of Parents

Since nurturing can reform bad habits, Frankenstein should have taken on a fatherly role to his creature even if he turned out to be of an evil nature. Frankenstein had this responsibility to take care of Grant or at least bother to learn if he was dangerous. Instead, he ran away to his chamber as soon as the creature came to life. Real children can be accidents, but Frankenstein worked tirelessly for two years to build Grant. He was 100% responsible, arguably more so than a real parent to a child. He should have loved him and raised him. He shouldn't have destroyed him unless he found out Grant was dangerous.

I think it’s Frankenstein’s fault that Grant became a murderer. If Grant would have had someone to teach him right from wrong, he could've been shaped into a moral citizen. We see in the book that he resonated with the heroes in stories and he even told Frankenstein he would've been better off with a companion from the beginning. What negatively affected Grant the most in his life was loneliness; an easy fix.

Frankenstein should have hidden Grant from most of society, except for people in his family (or anyone who could be trusted). People definitely would have thought the monster of supernatural height and strength was a menace to society. The book was also set in the late 18th century in Switzerland where there was still fear of witches, and if everyone discovered how Grant was made they might think Frankenstein was a witch. Surely they would both be put to death.

Frankenstein never should’ve created Grant; but since he did, he had a responsibility to care for him and turn him into the best possible almost-human he could be.

WC:292

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Tabula Rasa

Tabula Rasa: an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate. At birth, we are given, or are supposed to be given one. We are put in an environment where we are shaped by nature or nurture. But which has a bigger impact? I believe nurture does. 

Most habits can be reformed through nurture. By nature, I’m stubborn and short-tempered, which runs in my mother’s family, but growing up with an easygoing dad made me into a more patient (but still stubborn) person. I also had a family full of love. Being given a home centered around God also shaped me into the person I am today. 

On the other hand, so many people are born without a loving family or any stability at all. Yes, a “nurtured” child will be positively influenced, but they are not doomed without it. Anyone can choose to rewrite their destiny, although it’s easier for some. But if your environment was perfect, you would still make mistakes because that’s your nature. 

I think every child needs “mothering” of some kind to become a happy, successful adult. You’re more likely to develop a personality disorder like sociopathy or narcissism without bonds with caring figures. It’s a parent’s job to be this caring figure, not society’s, but ethically the society should fill the child’s needs when a parent fails. Children need and should have the stability of a parent’s unconditional love. This can still be found outside the home.

 No one is given a blank slate. You’re put in a random environment where every little thing that happens to you shapes who you are. What will win in your life, nature or nurture?

WC:279