one last point i would like to touch on in the next class meeting is about the donors... this question was written on the board.. "confused by the behavior of the donors - why do they keep donating their organs, even though they know that they are going to die?" these donators were raised in an academy where the teachers tried to raise them the same as normal people. what makes the normal people so important that the donors have to give up their lives for them? this question seems very biased on my part because last week in class i was in the group known as being the "normal people", at the same time i can see where the donors, "they" would be very upset with giving their lives for the normal people, "us". i was also wondering another question.. Did the donors have another purpose besides just giving the normal people their organs?? were they supposed to calm the normal people or make peace with them?
i felt this book was very similar to the movie THE ISLAND, as someone else mentioned that last week. in the movie, everyone in the world was cloned so that if something happened to the normal person then the clone would give up their body parts to keep that person alive or without a limb. i would also like to talk about the quesion also mentioned... will our society ever get to this same point mentioned in the book? although our society is very close and is already cloning things, but i think it would be very interesting to talk about the future and see if there is a potential for this to happen.
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I’d like to touch base on this question of why they continue to donate as well. As I see it, it’s just what they know. Generally, I tend to believe that people do what they’re told. They’ll even do it when they aren’t given a proper explanation or legitimate reasoning behind why they are told to do it. This stands mostly true for children. People grow up knowing how things are run and doing what their elders tell them…and usually they don’t find reason to question that. If they do, it’s difficult to change the perceptions they have grown up with. Just some thoughts.
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