rey YondjiDr. Thom YoungEnglish 10219 May 2014From a utopian vision to a dystopian societyI believe that everyone has the ideal of a perfect society. Nobody wants to live in a society where violence and evil reign. In my opinion, a utopian society would consist of very few government-imposed laws and a desirable constitution. People would get along and everything would be perfect. To achieve such an ideal, people must do everything in their power to manifest what they have imagined. Human nature, like that of any other animal, makes us competitive, especially with each other. In practice, the attempt to have a perfect society leads to the creation of a dystopian society where people are unhappy, scared and not treated equally. A utopian society can be achieved through two methods: eugenics and genetic engineering. With eugenics, a society attempts to improve the human body. In gene therapy or genetic engineering, the goal is to replace bad genes in someone who has a genetic condition with good ones. Eugenics is for the good of society and genetic engineering is for the good of the individual. Both techniques are expected to cure diseases, create a better quality of life and improve society as a whole. The term eugenics comes from the Greek “eu,” meaning good or healthy, and “genos,” meaning offspring. Conventional eugenics, or intentional selective breeding to improve genetic traits, has been performed on crops and livestock for thousands of years (Hix, Laura). The term eugenics as it pertains to human beings was first coined by Sir Francis Galton in 1883. Eugenics gained popularity in the late 19th and early 20th century... halfway through the paper... personalities of Le come from their experiences around the world. Nature should not be trifled with. Nobody can be perfect because in everything there is always the slightest flaw. If everyone and everything were perfect, everything would be boring and people wouldn't strive to do the unexpected things in life. We are imperfect by nature and will always live in an imperfect world. If we reach our definition of perfection only to find that it falls short of someone else's, then have we failed? It's easy to create such a world in fiction, but it's not feasible in reality. We as human beings will never live in a society where perfection exists; someone will find a way to go against the system. Our way of life is to do our best to overcome every imperfection, but we cannot eliminate it completely. I believe God created us this way so that we would remember that there is a power greater than us.