Huma1000
Autor: SiuWing Luk • November 15, 2015 • Essay • 381 Words (2 Pages) • 992 Views
HUMA1000 L2 (Fall 2015)
Term Essay Titles
- Background
It is 2046 and the world is engulfed by a terrible war against a powerfully armed terrorist organization. One of the most brutal leaders of this organization was your roommate at university. When he was at university, he was a kind and generous person, well-liked by his fellow students and teachers. Imagine that, in the above situation, you have a time machine that you can use for one return journey to the past. If you use it to return to your time as a student, you must use it to kill your roommate. You cannot travel back and try to reason with him; if you travel back in time, you have to kill him.
Essay Prompt
Would you travel back in time to kill your roommate in the above circumstances? Provide a sound argument to support your decision using what you have learned on this course.
- Background:
The Island is a science fiction film released in 2005. Here is a brief summary of the plot:
“In the year 2019, a group of clones are living in an isolated compound. They don’t know they are clones and they believe that the outer world has become so widely contaminated that humans cannot live in most of it. Every week a lottery is conducted and the winner gets to leave the compound to live on ‘The Island’, reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. In fact, all the “winners” are used for organ harvesting for each one’s sponsor, who is identical to them in appearance.”
Essay prompt:
Suppose that, in the future, technology exists which makes any kind of transplant possible and that the transplants are legal and affordable for all, do you think that the situation described in the film The Island is morally permissible? Using what you have learned on this course, present an argument to support your stance on this question.
- Suppose your mother and your wife/husband fell into a river, neither of them can swim and you can only save one of them, whom would you save and why? Provide an argument in support of your decision using what you have learned on this course.
Your final essay will be submitted through Turnitin on Canvas. Please pay close attention to the details announced.
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