“ It’s a girl” by Kathleen Facklemann is a story about genetically determining the sex of your child. With technology you can decide whether you want a boy or girl. The first hot spot I found is on page 363. “ There’s a lot that’s not known.” I chose this hot spot because it proves my point that I do not think determining the sex of your child is okay. Not only do I think it is immoral I think it is very dangerous. Who knows what the side effects can be, even though the baby’s are being born safe now what if something goes wrong in the future. I understand you need trial and error with every new invention but this has to do with human beings lives. I do not think we should be willing to put their health on the line just to make sure they are a certain sex. I think a parent should be happy either way if it is a boy or a girl its still their child ! The second hot spot i picked was on page 361. “ Nonetheless, the new technology raises some concern about the future.” I chose this as my second hot spot because it also proves my point on why I disagree with this new technology. It includes risks that we should not be willing to take. What would a world be like if girls completely outnumbered boys or vice versa. It would be absolute craziness. The gender would continuously have to make children from technology and the family aspect may not even be a concern anymore. I think since there is has not been a future for these children who are created we will be experiencing many risks and factors were not prepared for.
“ Similarly, to claim that such an undertaking is worthwhile because it will solve all of humanities problems is taking things too far” (389). This is the first hot spot I found in “ Why we should go to mars” Written by Kim Stanley Robinson. In this story we are should good, bad and really bad reasons for going to mars. I think this hot spot shows what I feel the most. In stead of looking for a new planet to live on for once we destroy ours how about we find a way to fix ares! If people just looked at the simple actions to fixing problems life would be so much easier but they don’t. They look for things like mars, total backup plans that are completely ridiculous. There is no way all our problems would go away just from going to mars. If we went we would repeat all our mistakes because people don’t change. The second hot spot I chose is on page 390. “Some will say we can send robots to make these investigations.” I just thought this was kinda cool and kinda funny. I Know that someday most likely in the near future this will be happening and to be honest it would not even really shock me. I think that if we need to send a robot into mars just to find out whats up there it should be obvious that its going to be impossible to have everyone else go there. I think going to mars is a far fetched dream. I think this is cool because if they actually got a robot that was that well programed and could go to mars and discover whats up there that would be sweet. I wonder if some day this will actually happen .
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