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Human Enhancement And Eugenics Similarities

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Human enhancement and eugenics may have their difference but they are also similar. By definition, human enhancement is “any attempt to temporarily or permanently overcome the current limitations of the human body through natural or artificial means.” Eugenics on the other hand is “improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits.” The obvious way these are similar is because they both focus on making the lives of individuals worth living. The way they are different is eugenics focuses on basically “weeding out the weak” which in this case would be the traits that people wouldn’t want to possess. Human enhancement helps the lives of the people by taking their impairment and enhance it so they can achieve new heights and live comfortably. …show more content…

No human is truly normal. People use human development as a tool go be the perfect human being in the world rather on focusing in improving the overall health of a human being. The article 20 Science Fiction Characters Who Got Their Legs Back discusses the movie Avatar on how the main character who has no legs enters a machine that gives his legs back and more powers on top of that in an alternate world. Instead of just giving the character his legs back, he gets more “powers’’ which basically gives the ability to more than just a normal being like he used to be. This is what Kevin was clearly talking about when he said that human enhancement needs to be

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