Monday, May 11, 2009

Too much knowledge?

Personally, I feel like Frankenstein took his quest way too far. He studied natural philosophy, which I don't know what all it entails, but I would presume that there is some element to it that suggests the world is the way it is because of nature, and so I'm surprised that he tried to create a person. Instead of Frankenstein being satisfied with how the earth is naturally he had to take it to the next level and attempt something, that I think only God can control. Though Frankenstein is brilliant, I don't think he should have tried to create a person because though it sounds cool, that power can easily be abused because it's too much for a mere man. Frankenstein should have been happy with his research that he was doing before, and I think his trying to revive smaller insects/animals was fine, but insects are a lot different than a human. Even if it were human parts that he could revive so that it could benefit someone, then it would have been fine, but this creature was useless and has only caused destruction. I don't think it's impossible to learn too much because knowledge is power and is a catalyst to the advancement of our society and race. But, the way that someone might use that knowledge is what is scary because knowing too much can always be harmful as much as it could possibly be beneficial. I don't have all the answers so I don't know how we should safe-guard the advancement of knowledge because I feel like that can be tricky and too many restrictions could be made, so I don't really know how to answer this last part of the question.

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