Gattaca Analysis

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Some of the advantages and disadvantages to having a society like that portrayed in GATTACA , advantages of having a society like GATTACA crimes such as murder , kidnapping , etc. it would be very easy to find and track the criminal because of all the ways to find every little hint of dna that has been left behind. Some disadvantages of having a society as in GATTACA , if you were not a perfect child then there was no chance of getting a good career. There was not a single child accepted into society that wasn’t perfect. Parents got to choose the perfect child of their dreams with genetic modification , which gave the parents full customization …show more content…

Vincent was forced to steal another man’s identity under the name of Jerome. Although Jerome was paralyzed waist down Jerome was a nobody till Vincent gave his life a new meaning . He proved himself to be very good at his work and was selected to be part of a prestigious mission to a moon in Saturn. Stealing Jerome’s identity did not change Vincent’s abilities He was always capable of doing well in this field , but his genes would never have given him that chance to prove that he can be better than most. If the world was to become a world where any job is based on how perfect you are it will become very corrupt because nobody is perfect parents will start to look at alternatives and see their new perfect child will take up the parents time as did Vincent’s parents. I don’t believe dna should evaluate an employee or any human being in general , to me it seems as if they are favoriting the perfect people and leaving the imperfect people to have the bad jobs and mistreat them …show more content…

In GATTACA yes the technology is nice but basing people on how their genes are wouldn’t be good in reality . As Vincent and his brother played chicken at the beach Anton wasn’t exactly perfect as everyone had thought he was. As they were swimming out in the ocean Anton’s body gave out and Vincent had to save him but even though Vincent had medical problems he was able to swim save his brother and still have to swim back while holding his brother. To me although Anton may have been the “perfect” child Vincent seemed to have no issues with all the medical issues he seemed to have had . Anton ended up having issues swimming out , but nobody is perfect . If we had a society like GATTACA had there wouldn’t be a perfect person like people would think because Anton was suppose to be perfect but couldn’t swim back at the beach . A good thing about it is that people would have a less likely chance of getting a disease cause when they are modifying the genes they can change the percentage of the child getting cancer . Scientists could increase peoples immunity to diseases Vincent is born without gene specialization after the race with his

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