Pandora's Box Rhetorical Devices

Based on the episode of Pandora’s Box from PBS, Dr. Watson explains his unconventional views about the future of DNA technology. In the video, Watson covers many different topics regarding the evolution and future for the human race, through DNA technology and gene enhancing. Some of the topics that Dr. Watson discussed were genetic engineering, eugenics, and genetic injustice. With these topics, many moral and ethical views arose from society regarding the issues with using DNA technology. Dr. Watson expressed his opinions about genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is the alteration of the genetic material of an organism. The alteration mainly occurs in the genes of plants to genetically modify the plants to the farmer’s needs, however, scientist have been studying how to genetically modify humans. Mario Capecchi is a scientist, and one of Watson’s students, who owns a lab that genetically enhances mice, with hopes to later be used on people. In his lab, Capecchi resynthesizes genes to
Eugenics is the sterilization of people who carry a specific trait, therefore, they cannot produce offspring and the trait becomes extinct. The most known form of eugenics occurred during the holocaust when the Nazi’s killed off everyone who did not have blonde hair and blue eyes. They wanted to create a “perfect” society. Due to the Nazi’s killing off the “genetically inferior,” Germany has a very hostel response to the name of genetics and the future that it holds. This shows that this form of DNA technology, is both morally and ethically wrong. Not only does this kill off or sterilize people against their will, which is against human rights, but many people who were sterilized were not given knowledge that they had been put through that procedure. Eugenics is both morally and ethically wrong because no human being deserves to be refused of having