The movie dealt with many of the moral and ethical issues that are always the center of discussion when this topic is brought up. ... The bigger question should always be, should a man play God? Since anyone can remember, it seems as though scientists try to play God. ... My question has always been this. ... I"m sure these are just personal theories of my own, but also very important things to think about. ...
In return, the sacrifices we had to make constituted just a small price in return. This price can be termed as a small token of appreciation for our friend, Science. ... It is a question of ethics of the person resorting to such means. ... There has been a lot of discussion and hype surrounding the recently unveiled Human Genome Project. ... Instead of saying that we are trying to play God, we may just in fact be discovering God and His ways. ...
Though I share Phillips's belief that "we need to cure ecocriticism of its fundamentalist fixation on literal representation," the larger theory and critique of ecocriticism of the sort he pursues is beyond my scope here. (8) Rather, in paying greater attention to the sort of ecological literacy or, less anachronistically, the natural history writing and thinking that emerge in Emerson as it does in Thoreau, I will be arguing that both writers complicate the assumption that the literal and literary senses of things can be separated irreducibly in this way. ...
