Academic readings, ‘A Pragmatic Optimism about Enhancement Technologies’ written by Nicholas Agar and ‘Newgenics’ by Edwin Black, together bring attention to the concerning issues around cloning and human enhancement. Investigative journalist Edwin Black’s reading focuses on the research surrounding ‘newgenics’ and how it will contribute to today’s society, while highlighting his negative uncertainty on how it will manifest. Black has a much more ethical and optimistic approach to this argument, he was showed to include detailed facts of already occurring case studies related to discrimination. Blacks execution is more simplified and strait forward. His work is also not carried out as severe or intense as Agars. Nicholas Agar’s uses analytical methods to present his approach, and presents a range of sources to emphasis his position. Agar uses examples of Hollywood to explain, societies …show more content…
As the reader, my preference would lean towards Blacks piece of writing being more persuasive. Blacks writing was clearly stated points, due to the history of his parents surviving the holocaust he has quite an abrupt way of addresses his opinion, and use of scare mongering could be interrupted due to this communication style. Black also did not use as many sources as Agar which made Blacks position clear whereas Agars work uses a lot of different sources, meaning his position becomes lost. In the beginning of Edwin Blacks reading ‘Newgentics’, he introduces the argument with