Do we have a choice?
In our times, the possibility to be saved by science is great. Soon, our DNA codes will be implanted in animals; that will then recreate reserve organs and reserve limbs for replacements for us, just like spare parts for a car or a refrigerator. But will this make us happier? Do we believe that people will be better when we denounce responsibility for our own genetic inheritance? The next step may well be to create hybrides, and maybe we can soon make reserve copies of ourselves to be used as spareparts when something is not working properly. This way, we can clone ourselves, in as many numbers as we want, for different use. One of us can take care of home and children, another can go to work and another of us can be used to collect knowledge. Since we are more of ourselves, we will genetically be all of us at the same time.
Do we know what we are doing?
Scientific research and the future are exciting, but do we know what we are doing? A scientist’s job is to pursue all the possibilities, as it is legal and protected against moral responsibility. And all pharmaceutical companies get stars in their eyes thinking about new inventions, and they are well insured againt human error. Many of us remember the Thalodomide catastrophe and its consequences. New hospital errors occur all the time, because people neccesarily must be the latest guinea pigs in the pharmaceutical industry. Therefore, I ask you, what about us who are the guinea pigs? Are we paralysed and without will power in this process? Is our desire to be physically perfect greater than our personal resonsibility for our genetic inheritance? Are we willing to change everything that we do not like about ourselves; and in this way, adjust from an ordinary Volkswagen to a Mercedes cabriolet, without adjusting the motor?
The spare part generation...
We talk about changing spare parts only for the sake of vanity, as if we were changing a dress or pants; men are also part of this vanity parade. This possibility of changing via surgery has been made normal istead of being a possibility, when it is needed. This science is available for everyone; it is only a matter of money. But there is a moral aspect to this that should have been taken into consideration. It is not about stopping the development; because I agree that there must be possibilities for scientists and doctors that wish to experiment, so that the possibilities to save life in a crisis situation are improved. But the same authorities that allow these experiments and this development are also opening up for commercial use without considering the ethical and moral aspects, and that is worrying.
Is "the press" cynical and greedy?
We have a "press" that lives off people’s vanity, and that thrives uninhibitedly to show the perfect person’s appearance before and after an operation, and that is creating an image of a world where everything can be bought for money. And we have a world of people choosing professions inside the same vanity fair. A good example is plastic surgeons that easily see money in people’s vanity. Today, there is a market, a vanity market, in the midst of a world full of disasters, hunger, wars and poverty. Many doctors, whose job it is to save lives, see greater personal challenges in cosmetic surgery than those working with "doctors without borders." And this is a world of people, young and middle-aged, that only see themselves as incomplete in the mirror and, therefore, create this "vanity fair." People neither see, nor want to see, their own responsibility in this process. We say that we live in the world we create. So who is creating this "vanity fair?" Who has an interest in guiding people into this "vanity fair?" And who is it that blindly follows this road of stupidity?
What is the alternative?
The market mechanism is strong, vanity is strong, the desire for the good life is strong; and against this, a lot of individuals are fighting a battle that has been going on for milleniums. A fight about the soul; but who cares about the soul and an inner life, when cars, boats, houses and clothes, new breasts and hair extentions are marketed on the front page in the weekly press? And who cares about genes, when we can soon change everything and people, soon will be like robots and everything can be replaced as needed? Then we might as well carry on; and in the next generation, we will be one step closer to imortality.
The fight for freedom...
But for some, the few that see no life of value in this form of existance, there is hope. There are possibilities, if only enough people will step forward and show themselves. We must soon start to see who we are, and we must stop buying ourselves a perfect shell of skin and hair; and, instead, start to remove this shell that we are hiding behind, in fear of not being good enough. Good enough for what? Or good enough for whom? We must start to see ourselves; because one thing is certain, someone is gaining on our moral dissolution, while we are waiting to "find ourselves." We are not only a genetic product of our ancestors. We have our own value in the form of a seed from the Universe, that we have gained access to through the genetic multitude to inhabit a human body via family ties. This earthly home, our body, we use as our home while learning to live a life in freedom. The question is, have we understood to use this freedom, and have we understood to take responsibility for this freedom; or if we, as in Sodom and Gomora, only have used it.
