Blog 10: Gattaca

In the essay “The Man on the Moon” George J. Annas writes that “The New ideal human. The genetically engineered ‘superior’ human, will almost certainly come to represent ‘the other’. If history is a guide, either the humans will view the ‘better’ humans as the other and seek to control or destroy them, or vice versa” (236). Gattaca is a futurist movie about how humans are genetically engineered to be perfect, so they aren’t born with any risks of ever being sick or even at risk of getting some kind of disease. I agree with Annas hypothesis because normal flawed humans beings would view the perfect humans as the other because they would be able to do the things we can’t even do. I sure the government would want to control them, use and bend them for their evil purposes. Then again I think as time goes by they might be a lot more perfect “superior” humans around and they might want turn against us, flawed humans and eliminate us because they might see us as the other and might think of us as incapable of doing every perfect. For example Hitler one of the most horrific devils of his time murdered millions of Jews. I think he felt that the Jews were somehow better than his own so he felt threatened by them; I guess he saw them as his other so he took action. Another example is the inventor of apple, Steve Jobs came out with the iPhone and the iPad, millions of people went crazy trying to obtain these items because I think they felt like the other around others that had these gadgets, so they went out all the way to get it to look superior. In some ways people like Steve Jobs is trying control everyone because he wants everyone to have his gadgets, so he might invent something else to make us nuts. In the movie Gattaca Vincent as a little boy was said to be flawed and he going to die when he thirty. The parents had another son which they had fixed him so he will be perfect in every way. As the movie progressed we see that he tried to be like a Superior human. He pretended to be someone else to get in. Vincent got to go up in space where he wanted to go, but his brother died because he wasn’t perfect forever. Something went wrong with him. Vincent proved that even a flawed human is very capable of anything just like a superior is. We humans are born flawed. We aren’t perfect, but that why each of us is different; we each can do something someone else can’t do. We shouldn’t play god and alter and fix every single flaw because sooner or later we all will get what coming to us. It might be good but it will ultimately defeat the purpose of being human, therefore we’ll be like robots walking around.