Wow!! I went to see Stephen King's "The Mist" on Saturday night. What a movie! And not in the regular, formulaic horror movie sense of the word. King does horror like no one else. Although "The Mist" was suspenseful and slightly gruesome at times, the main point of the storyline said something far more important about humanity. Perhaps that it is why the fourteen year olds walked out of the movie saying it "sucked." They just didn't get it! I don't want to ruin the ending or most of the storyline for people who haven't seen the movie yet, but it really makes a point about humans and science. When is enough going to be enough for us? What has to happen to humanity before scientists will pull back on the limits they are pushing? Probably not until it is too late, is King's analysis.
The movie got my sister and I talking about this subject on a larger scale. She told me that one of her clients told her they are cloning racehorses and show horses already! Omigod! The motivation is purely money! Why pay half a million dollars or more for a horse with good parents, because the good genes may or may not be passed down. Instead, let's just clone the prize winning horses because we already know they will be successful! Sick, sick! We may as well just start cloning the smartest, most athletic people in the world to eradicate the ills of society, such as poverty and homelessness. What is our existence coming to? People who get their "rocks off" on playing God are going to be the downfall of this planet, one way or another! The ethics of policy makers are slowly being loosened, as every five or ten years, scientists do something they never would have dreamed about in the past. I can hardly wait to see what another ten years of science and decisions will bring!
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