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Frankenstein Risks
Frankenstein's Monsters

By: Kismat

Do the benefits of science outweigh the risks?

Why or why not?

I think the risks outweigh the benefits. He could not start bringing back people from the "dead" and he had to face a lot more risks. Experimenting on corpses, living animals, living people were big risks they took that led to nothing but failure. And tonic bombs killed 100,000+ people. They caused more damage than benefit. I think they shouldn't have tried to bring back people from the dead, I think there were a lot of

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