Notion de progrès, bac anglais LV1

Scientific progress is a never ending process in which science produces an improvement in the human condition though scientific breakthrough . Across centuries science has deeply impacted the medicine fields as healthcare, drugs or antibiotics which have saved lifes and extended life expectancy.

 Despite the advantages of scientific progress where does the moral line needs to be drown ?
In order to answer this question we will study the need of scientific progress because it saves and changes people's life, then we will see the dangers of medicine and technologies exceeding our humanity.

Scientific progress can changes amputees' life. "How the business of bionics changing lives" is an article made by Anmar Frangoul for the American channel CNBC , the 28 of October 2013 in which it's explained how scientific progress has helped James Young's life. James Young was an electrical line worker when he lost both his arm in 2010 in a workplace accident. Thanks to the development of cutting edge prosthetics, amputees like James Young are now able to ride bikes, grip bottles and even run. After he went on surgery James Young went on a therapy to strengthen his muscles, train on how to use his prosthetics and reassigned nerves. "It's actually amazing, I actually feel these arms are parts of me and I'm running them, they're not a foreign object" said James Young.
With up to a million people loosing a limb a year (according to the World Health Organization), prosthetics are now becoming consumer goods and have evolved over the years to allow disabled people being less and less considered as what they really are : disabled people. So this article highlights that scientific development is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, in order to help people in need. But nowadays it can also leads to ethical problems.

Scientific progress does have a ethical limit to the extent where we jeopardize one's humanity. In an excerpt from "Gattaca" directed by Andrew Nicoll and released in 1997, we can see Vincent's conception and birth and then a quick part of his childhood. At the delivery The doctor is able to give his life expectancy as 30 years old. He also gives death statistics like Maniac depression as 42% probability or heart disorder as 99% probability. Technologies are replacing nature because nature seems to be harmful to human beings. Then everything is scheduled and there is no more mystery. It's like a dystopia, it shows the danger of the over use of sciences and technologies. Babies are not conceived in love anymore but conceived by geneticists. Thus, knowing the future seems to be a drawback because it leads to overprotective parents and a child (them an adult) can't fully enjoy his life because he constantly knows what will be his death cause. In the excerpt, the school teacher doesn't want to have Vincent as a student because she knows he is weak and she does't want him to heart hisself while playing in the playground or else.Through this excerpt one can see that science can lead to an ethical problem because it plan your life and prevents you from happiness wile scientists link health with happiness.

As a whole, scientific progress is required In order to save lives and has a positive impact for amputees. However it does raise some moral and psychological problems. In a whole, progress seems to be constantly breeding oppositions such as women and men on the path to equal footing.

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