Friday, April 17, 2009

Personal response to goodness

Why would anyone be willing to do good to others? Why are they willing to sacrifice their hard-earned time to help insignificant strangers? The answer is that little spark of fire in our heart that drives us to do extraordinary things, called blood kinship.
Have you ever wondered what drives worker bees to defend their hive selflessly at the risk of their own life? It is blood kinship. Before this theory was introduced, Darwin was puzzled by the fact that if his theory was right (which in the end was), then this act of altruism would be immediately abolished as it definitely could not be favored by nature. This almost made sense when blood kinship was introduced to him.
So what drives human beings to do good to others? I think that would be blood kinship. We as human beings have to remember that what we are doing is for the greater good of the community. We are actually saving copies of our own genes, copies that currently reside within our blood kins.
Another reason would be reciprocity. Individuals are willing to help others when they will get something in return., otherwise known as the “I scratch your back, you scratch mine” method.
In conclusion, I feel that humans are willing to help each other in need based on the two reasons as stated above.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Revised intro

In the current millennium, with so many advancements in science, we should not hinder the progress of stem cell researching. How you ever wondered whether there is a cure to various life-threatening diseases? Have ever wondered if that would be the medicine of the future? However, good things definitely have a bad side to it too. Stem cell research is definitely useful, but is there a different side that has not been published? In this essay, I will demonstrate both sides of the story and hope that you would take the same stand as me.

New interesting introduction

In the current millennium, with so many advancements in science, we should not hinder the progress of stem cell researching. How you ever wondered whether there is a cure to various life-threatening diseases? Have ever wondered if that would be the medicine of the future? However, good things definitely have a bad side to it too. Stem cell research is definitely useful, but is there a different side that has not been published? In this essay, I will try to put up an argument showing the pros and cons of stem cell researching.

Commentary on Stem cell research

In the current millennium, with so many advancements in science, we should not hinder the progress of stem cell researching. How you ever wondered whether there is a cure to various life-threatening diseases? Have ever wondered if that would be the medicine of the future? However, good things definitely have a bad side to it too. Stem cell research is definitely useful, but is there a different side that has not been published? In this essay, I will try to put up an argument showing the pros and cons of stem cell researching.

Stem cells should definitely be continued. Even the president of the united states of America, Barack Obama, agrees with me when he decided to revise Bush’s policy of completing shutting down of stem cell research in the united states. The new law would restore the US federal grants to scientists and research laboratories. This esoteric niche of scientific inquiry is geared towards the betterment of the human condition that to hold back its progress is just ungodly. Could you imagine how much poorer the store for human knowledge would be if searching minds such as Coppernicus and Charles Darwin had had their pioneering question curtailed by religious edict, just because it contradicted the religious dogma of the day. We must realise that the banning of stem cell research would be exactly the same. Stem cells have saved many people from life-threatening problems. For example, adult stem cells are already being used to save people from lung problems and are used in skin grafting . Newly approved drugs are being used to simulate the adult bone marrow to produce many blood-making stem cells and has successful cured a patient with lymphoma. It can also be used to restore blood flow to heart or brain after heart attacks or strokes. All this were only possible when stem cell research was continued. This proved that stem cell research have helped people and brought happiness to many people. Stem cell research should definitely be continued.

However, many people argue that stem cell research have brought more harm than help to human beings. For example, there are many risks entailing to the process of the research. The surgical extraction of the ova is a very good example. Supernormal of dangerous hormones must be used over many cycles to flog the woman’s ovaries to produce more ovaries than normal. This would cause it to cause more harm than it were to help. Another danger would be the cancer stem cells. Both them and good stem cells are very hard to differentiate. Sometimes, cancer cells could be injected into patients along with good ones. This would also cause more harm than to help.

But this is not true. Because of the increase if risks in the surgical extraction of the ova, scientists are currently developing banks of embryonic stem cells differentiated by tissue markers. Thus, this would decrease the risk in this operation and make stem cell research a definite must-do. In the second counter-point, I have to agree that it was very hard to differentiate from the two. But that was only in the past. Now, scientists are able to differentiate them and kill the remaining cancerous stem cells and thus making it to cause more help than harm.

In conclusion, I would like to reinstate the point that stem cell research should be continued as the pros outweigh the cons. It brings more help than harm. If it were to be banned, could you imagine parents of of children that are down because of a very serious sickness and someone out there is preventing them a possible cure? That would be wrong.