The idea of progress : should we be afraid of progress?

The idea of progress

intro:

I'm going to talk about the Idea of ​​Progress concept. To begin, I would like to give a definition of progress. The idea of ​​progress is that the world can become better in terms of art, science, technology, freedom and quality of life. However, progress is sometimes greater than it is. We believe that we will weigh the positive and negative aspects of progress in the scientific, medical and new technologies fields.

The problem is: should we be afraid of progress?

To answer this problem, we will use two documents, the first is called Surviving Progress, it is the script of the trailer of the documentary. the second document is a text entitled "embryo genetic screening controversial and succesful" it talks about the history of the Nash family.

1st part: surviving progress

This script explains that progress is good but who must succeed to distinguish the bad, they explain that the progress on the scale that we reached is a threat for humanity, because to produce this technology we practice the deforestation, the Co2 is creating climate change as a result of pollution. They also specify that Nature does not have unlimited resources. They then go on to a second part that focuses on the economy, they specify that citizens can no longer pay taxes because money grows faster than the real world. We have proge that are almost ilimit in a world characterized by limited resources, this will necessarily lead to famines, revolutions because the people can not live with dignity. But they also specify that we can control our destiny.

2nd part: embryo genetic screening

This second document is of particular interest to the Nash family. Everything began in the United States at the dawn of the third millennium. Molly, the future elder sister of Adam Nash, 6 years old, has a disease "Fanconi anemia, a very serious hereditary blood disorder. The only possible remedy is hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The solution proposed by Yuri Verlinsky, Department of Genetics and Reproduction at the University of Chicago, was to select from a panel of embryos designed by parents, in a conventional in vitro fertilization, those who did not wear the defective discomfort.

Thus, the embryo free of Molly-mediated disease that was immuno-compatible was re-implanted in the mother's womb and gave Adam Nash the very first therapeutic baby in history. A baby like any other, except that the initial goal of the parental project was to have histocompatible stem cells to treat another human being, in this case to regenerate the bone marrow of his sister, Molly. this first medical raises many questions of a moral, religious and ethical nature. For, for the first time, human procreation is not only oriented towards birth but charged with a "mission", a therapeutic that is ultimately not natural.

conclusion:

The prorès can be very scary because we feel overcome by the technologies we have created but we must not forget that we without our creation we destroy the environment, the planet but we are advancing in a medical progress that can delight some people but also scare like the story of Adam Nash.

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