The Ugly /dark side of humans.
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Re: The Ugly /dark side of humans.
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It is true. Sometimes we tend to forget that our lives are just as short and we should never ever disregard anyone's life no matter the circumstance.Arimart99 wrote: ↑03 Apr 2020, 19:39 The ugliest thing is not necessarily the acts themselves, but the mindset of the people performing them. Sadly, the human mind can be such an ugly thing, and it's something that we've seen throughout our own history. One of the things that grossed me out was what they did to Kalin to dehumanize him.
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AlbaIglesias wrote: ↑02 Jun 2020, 12:46 I think this book shows how human beings have been acting since, at least, the Medival Times. We take advantage of anyone in order to make improvements or developments without taking into consideration others' rights. I think the book should help us to remember the dark moments in which humans experimented with other human beings or enslaved them. The book, in my opinion, only demonstrates that the human being will keep doing it, maybe not with other human beings, but with animals, or as in the case of the book, with clones.
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I agree. This was just awful and made all the worse by Kalin's lack of consent to something that terrible.B Creech wrote: ↑01 Apr 2020, 17:53 I found the cutting off of the tips of Kalin's fingers and toes to give him claws was another ugly dark act. It was inhumane. When he agreed to have experimental testing done he certainly did not expect anything like that to be done to him. And without his knowledge as well!
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I know! He agreed to have some experiments, but he never agreed to be physically altered! And to have that be the first thing they did to him was terrible!Adedayo+23 wrote: ↑06 Jun 2020, 12:59I agree. This was just awful and made all the worse by Kalin's lack of consent to something that terrible.B Creech wrote: ↑01 Apr 2020, 17:53 I found the cutting off of the tips of Kalin's fingers and toes to give him claws was another ugly dark act. It was inhumane. When he agreed to have experimental testing done he certainly did not expect anything like that to be done to him. And without his knowledge as well!
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Hmm.Katherine Smith wrote: ↑16 Apr 2020, 17:07 Despite the other threads, I personally was shocked at the lack of humanity shown to the clones. It reminded me of the way in which African slaves were treated when they were brought to the Americas to work on the plantations. It showed me how humans have an ugly or dark side that can come out if given the right conditions. This book also serves as somewhat of a cautionary tale about the dangers of the overuse or over dependence on technology.
If given the wrong condition I'd say humans are rather conditioned to adapt to whatever condition is thrown. We however thrive better with lovely conditions.
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It was the same for me too. A living bodily creature must have it's rights as similar to humans. On the name of experiments and greater discoveries, exploitation of one invention isn't good.Ferdinand_otieno wrote: ↑01 Apr 2020, 01:23 In this book we saw that clones were not afforded human rights and that many characters accepted their abuse and demeaning life. For me, the most ugly side of this was the torture performed on the two projects in the name of Pain Acclimation.
What was the ugliest or darkest act you experienced in this book?