QW Course evaluation

I think that the pacing has been really good. Unfortunately we have the last period of the day and it is very difficult to focus I find yet it has been paced very nicely. I do think that vocal quizzes are the last things on our minds and they are hard to keep up with.

The Perfect Baby? QW #2

If I were to design a perfect baby, I would make it athletic and smart. I don't really care about the aesthetic part of it so I would definitely just make it have a very good personality. If it were possible to genetically design a baby I would also want to make sure that they would not pass any genetics on that would cause cancer or any incurable disease. I am against this yet obviously if it were my child I would be a bit biased.

UN natural selection? QW #1

It is interesting to see that when we genetically modify animals we think its cool and that its a good idea, yet when we think about modifying humans it scares us. When it is used to fight disease it is definitely a good idea yet it scares me to think that people could get a hold of this and use it for evil on the human body.

I am against this because it will take a lot of failing before we get it right and those fails could mean failing for human life. Seeing those butterflies that the crisper didn't worked on scared me because thinking about it in terms of butterflies, it could be so much more dire in the case of humans.

Choosing what gender you want your baby to be is not the same as genetically changing a child. I understand wanting to choose that but call me old fashion but I believe that a surprise is interesting and fun. When we mess with so much, it could end up being something negative and not positive as intended.

Ethical? 3 gene baby?

I do not think it is ethical to make a baby out of different DNA. The world is made so that some people do not survive, and although it is sad for some people, the world self regulates its growth and prevents over population. When we, humans, come along and try to mess with the way of natural life it messes up the order. The act itself may be ethical but I think that messing with something so sacred as life itself and the creation, is unethical. The world is meant to function in certain ways and creating babies is something that we were never meant to do. If you arent meant to have a child, you won't have one. I believe that everything happens for a reason and while it may be harsh, this is not a field that scientists should enter in to.

Quick write #9

Jealousy is intolerable. It is a feeling that nobody wants because everyone understands that it makes you look bad. Whenever I feel jealous I try to make myself feel better because in the end it is better to not look jealous and shut that feeling down. Being jealous is so difficult and everything that the woman said is absolutely true. I had never realized the huge role that envy plays in our lives. It is everywhere and it will never go away. The social media currency is envy. This was so true and I went on to realize that the more likes a post has, the cooler that post is, which means that there are so many people that are jealous of you and your life, that they felt the need to double tap.

The Psychology of Evil

It's very interesting that when put in certain situations people begin to believe certain things. Psychology is such an interesting study about how situations change everything. This experiment at Stanford was so incredible that everyone knew that it was not true but people still began to take on certain roles and believe certain things. People often criticize Zimbardo for his experiment but I believe that it was so important and so crucial to our understanding of behavior. I would love to watch that movie and hear more about this.