Should it be a choice
Should it be a Choice?
I have a special drug, and it will turn you into a brilliant musician (or novelist, physicist, philosopher, or gymnast— take your choice). Your candle will burn very bright but briefly: the drug will cut your life expectancy in half. The question is not whether you would choose to take the drug; rather, should you have the choice to take such a drug, or should it be banned?
In all honesty I’d have to say this “miracle drug” should be banned.
Drugs should not be forced on anyone no matter what the derived results would be. And in this case an option to accept or decline is very important. If this drug is forced on me; my agency is removed from me. And I will not be in charge of my own life. I would have to take the talent(s) I have been forced with and know that when I die I could have lived 2 times longer. If I took this drug lived a great life and I died at 26 it would be known that I would have lived until I was 52. In 52 years I could take the time to harness a skill, or become a great person. I may not become famous celebrity, but I’m sure in 52 years I could influence or encourage and experience more than I could at 26. Since we don’t know our death date and this drug would ultimately kill me I would have I decline the choice to take the drug.
The consequence is something of great importance almost like the Episode of The Twilight Zone; an older man was sick and frail and dying and he became young again, by the use of science and medicine, if my memory is correct his consequence would have been to live without his wife because she didn’t choose to take the youth elixir, the man reverted back to a sick old man and was happy.
Although it may be great to attain skills I never thought I’d be capable of owning. But the choice is there and it’s a choice that shouldn’t be available.
I have a special drug, and it will turn you into a brilliant musician (or novelist, physicist, philosopher, or gymnast— take your choice). Your candle will burn very bright but briefly: the drug will cut your life expectancy in half. The question is not whether you would choose to take the drug; rather, should you have the choice to take such a drug, or should it be banned?
In all honesty I’d have to say this “miracle drug” should be banned.
Drugs should not be forced on anyone no matter what the derived results would be. And in this case an option to accept or decline is very important. If this drug is forced on me; my agency is removed from me. And I will not be in charge of my own life. I would have to take the talent(s) I have been forced with and know that when I die I could have lived 2 times longer. If I took this drug lived a great life and I died at 26 it would be known that I would have lived until I was 52. In 52 years I could take the time to harness a skill, or become a great person. I may not become famous celebrity, but I’m sure in 52 years I could influence or encourage and experience more than I could at 26. Since we don’t know our death date and this drug would ultimately kill me I would have I decline the choice to take the drug.
The consequence is something of great importance almost like the Episode of The Twilight Zone; an older man was sick and frail and dying and he became young again, by the use of science and medicine, if my memory is correct his consequence would have been to live without his wife because she didn’t choose to take the youth elixir, the man reverted back to a sick old man and was happy.
Although it may be great to attain skills I never thought I’d be capable of owning. But the choice is there and it’s a choice that shouldn’t be available.