Why Is Charlie Unethical

“That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.” (Goodreads) Charlie’s A mentally challenged thirty-two year old man with an IQ of sixty-eight, has a mind of a six year old, and who works at a Bakery in New York. The operation performed on Charlie is unethical, because God made him that way if he wanted him to be like that he would’ve been that way, If he can’t make the decision on his own they shouldn’t operate on him, and after the experiment charlie feeled like a laboratory animal after the operation.

God didn't make Charlie that way so they should not try and change him. Hilda told him that and she was fired, because the doctors didn’t want him to know what was going on. “Mabey they got no rite to make me smart because if god wantid me to be smart he would have made me that way”pg16. Its naive and innocent that he didn’t know anything about the surgery, he was just as clueless as
He was unable to take care himself, His Uncle Herman always took care of him. Uncle Herman gave him a apartment, got him a job, always protected him from neighborhood bullies. Next Alice needed his parents to sign off the paper for permission for they could do the experiment on him, but Charlie doesn’t exist in his parents everyday life. “Your fooling yourself, Rose isn’t fair to us or him pretending he’s normal driving him as if he were an animal that could learn to do tricks” pg73. This when Charlie realized his mother despised him for not being like other children. So Alice Kinnian tracks down his sister Norma and tells her about the operation but she’s shocked because her parents told her Charlie died, but she signs off on the permission to let them operate on Charlie so he can be like a normal person. If he can’t make the decision on his own they shouldn’t do it they treated him like an test