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Argumentative Essay 'De-Extinction'

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The Responsibility That Come Along Creatures and inventers always bring no harm and advance the world like the making of automatic weapons and bombs that have killed thousands millions of people or the capacity there only made for good and can’t do bad right?In the informative essay “De-Extinction”, “we have no idea what havoc we might cause in doing so. Many extinct creatures were fearsome killers that would be very dangerous to humans” and in the Greek Mythology “Prometheus the Friend of Man”, “But Prometheus did not utter a groan in spite of all his sufferings. Year after year he lay in agony, and yet he would not complain, beg for mercy or repent of what he had done”. Both “De-Extinction” and “Prometheus, the Friend of Man”, takes the …show more content…

Prometheus felt bad for humans that his brother Epimetheus gave all the gifts to all other animals and humans were left with nothing. In the myth it states “For the children of earth were not happy as they had been in the golden days when Saturn ruled. Indeed, they were very poor and wretched and cold, without fire, without food, and with no shelter but miserable caves” (Study syncs2). Life for humans was not so easy without a gift since all the gifts were given to all the animals of the world. As further in the story Prometheus “Then he showed men how to build fires for themselves, and it was not long before they began to do all the wonderful things of which Prometheus had dreamed. They learned to cook and to domesticate animals and to till the fields and to mine precious metals and melt them into tools and weapons” (Study sync 10). Prometheus feels bad for humanity and takes responsibility for them, and he takes the gift of fire and gives it to them even though it would come with a price. In the text ,“But Jupiter was not so happy. He saw that men were gaining daily greater power, and their very prosperity made him angry” (study sync 11) and ”Soon after this the god decided that it was time to punish Prometheus”(Study Sync22). Prometheus knew what would happen and he takes the blame and full responsibility for all that will come after. After words in the text ,“Year after year he lay in agony, and yet he would not complain, beg for mercy or repent of what he had done. Men were sorry for him, but could do nothing”(Study Sync23). Prometheus does not complain for his suffering as he knew all the responsibility he had for giving the gift of fire to humans. The responsibility Prometheus must take is not justified but he took full responsibility for his creation and did just leave humans even with the punishments he

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