Opinion

Using science and maths to explain evolutionary biology, even kindness in a person also can be rooted to their genes and to equations. I am truly shocked that goodness, in our genes, only applies to blood relatives and people that you know of, not people that you don't know. This can be greatly seen in this society, if your relative and a stranger is drowning, and you only can save one, who would you save? Many would answer relative. It is a common trend and people are losing the ability to help other people that are in need even though when they are in trouble. Even as I type this opinion, I could remember the amount of times a person helped me before when I am in trouble. Less that 5.

Commentary

“To abuse your daughter when she turns 11 is horrible enough, but then to incarcerate your daughter when she turns 19 in order to perpetuate the sexual abuse, and to keep her in a darkened dungeon for the next 24 years, together with three of the seven children you incestuously impose on her in a mockery of normal parenthood, represents a crime against the soul,” said Mr Phillip Hodson, a Fellow of the British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy. From this quote, I agree that incest is an ugly thing, not just ending with sexual relationship but laced with shame, disgust, mental and health impacts which affects the child or even the children bore from these acts of emotion.
Incest affect the mental and health state of a children, which could be clearly shown from cases of incest of recent years, with the most famous cases like Arcebio Alvarez from Columbia, who kept on the incest relationship with his adopted child, since she was 9 years old into the 30s and the case of Josef Fritzl from Austria, who kept his daughter under a hidden, windowless cellar for nearly a quarter of a century, raping her repeatedly and forcing her to give birth to seven of his children, who have just seen daylight for the first time of their life after they were released. We can see that the victims are clearly affected as they are constantly in fear of their perpetrator and they are permanently scarred for life as they are afraid to face the world after being raped by their own relatives. Diseases like AIDS, herpes and many more sexually transmitted diseases are transmitted easily through this relation of incest. Many children in Africa also had STDs as they are sold off to other people for money and beliefs of having sex with a virgin will cure the STDs. These causes massive impact to the children and even the descendants of the victim as they have higher chances of death due to congenital disease and they are affected mentally as they don’t know real family values and they are sexually “incompetent” as they are afraid of the experience after they are raped by their family members. Researches also shows that chances of the victims committing suicide is high and they rarely get into a relationship with the opposite sex due to the bad experience they recalled.
However, incestuous relationship might not be bad overall as seen from the case of John and Jenny Deaves from Australia who had incestuous relationship between father and daughter after they were married. Both of them are consensus parties and both agreed to this relationship. They given birth to 2 children, one died due to congenital diseases and the other one is a healthy nine-month-old baby girl. Even though incest is morally incorrect but the father did not “violated his daughter and used his position of authority to take advantage of her powerlessness". Even though it caused the death of his child, both of them are still fine with each other. There were no health or mental impacts due to incest and both parties agree to continue this relationship.
But incest is still incest and it’s shameful and, to many people, disgusting as they conflict with moral values of “father taking care of children” instead of “having sex with them”. Imagine that you are Mrs Dorothy Deaves, who married John Deaves, how would you feel when your husband is having sex with your ex-wife’s daughter or try imagining you being Mrs Jenny Deaves’s husband. Both Mrs Dorothy Deaves and Mrs Jenny Deaves’s husband have divorced both John and Jenny Deaves and as quoted by Mrs Dorothy, "I'm devastated — he has hurt me terribly," "It was hard to face for a long time.” "It's one of those things everyone's so upset about.” It will hurt many people involved in this and create an out roar due to this incident. As quoted by Mr. John Deaves, "Emotions take over, as people no doubt realize, there are times during your life where emotions do rule the heart, it rules the head," he said. We can clearly see that acts of incest is due to emotion and that incest is an ugly thing as many people will look down on the victims and protagonist and comments from one of the commenter on this news posted “How would the daughter feel if their daughter grows up and the Father-Grandfather decides she is desirable and wants to have a sexual relationship with her. Sick, as if there isn't enough people in the world to choose as your partner rather than steal your mother’s husband.” These types of comments will hurt the child emotionally when she grows up.
I am grateful that I live in a family that is well rounded and does not commit incest. Even as we speak, around the world there might be other cases of incest committed in this tainted world. Many are concealed, with little people knowing it except the victims and the perpetrator. Hopefully, cases of incest decreases and that people begin to understand what is morally right and what isn’t. Not using emotion to control your head isn’t a bad thing to do.

Embryonic Stem Cell Motivator

Anyone have ever imagined that organ transplant law can be removed once and for all? Anyone wondered that the queue for new organs for transplant can be removed? Many have wanted them to happen and found many ways to go about trying to solve it. Embryonic Stem Cell is one of the most prominent way to solve this problem as it is feasible to many and it could be done in the near future with the speed of today's technology advancement. It could help many, as scientists say. It will create many people with organs produced by animals in their body walking around, living like normal. People that are close to you might have cloned organs from animals or a living embryo. However, I disagree that it should be continued as it will create problems in moral ethics and many problems will soon arise, like people abusing the organs created out of animals.

Opinion on Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Embryonic Stem Cell has always been a controversy since its debut, where if used properly, would be able to solve most of the problems like lack of organs for transplants and to cure diseases that are deemed as "incurable" back then. The usage for stem cells, the basic of all cells, have been proven worthy in the medical field. But many problems have appeared too, corruption have appeared in the field too. Many criticism of moral ethics and opinions of using embryo to create organs have arise over the years. Billions of money have injected into research and development of this research. Although it may be controversy and morally bad, I will still agree that Embryonic Stem Cell research should be continued to help many people with the lack of organs for organ transplant.

Embryonic Stem Cells have helped many people. Many research have been done for stem cells, the basic cells of all cells, where it changes itself to other cells such as muscle, coronary, brain cells and many more to support the organ's function to support the body. It was researched as many people have died with the lack of organ transplant such as kidneys, heart and lungs. The most recent research/breakthrough in this field, is where a scientist managed to "clean out" the heart of mouse of all its cells and injected embryonic stem cells to produce coronary cells. The heart of the mouse managed to beat again and it shocked most of the scientist as they thought it was impossible at all. This brought out hope that one day the researchers can create a organ that is suitable for transplant. This shows that embryonic stem cell research should be continued to create chances that one day our heart can be "reused" even though it is damaged.

Using ethics, embryonic stem cell should be stopped as usage of embryo cells from a female donor. Many deem zygote is a "life" and that it should not be used for experiments as it might give birth to a life. There are other ethics involved also, the newest controversial news, shown in The Straits Times, of January 2006, where Professor Hwang Woo Suk faked his research and results and gained credit for nothing done. The author of this article also stated that,"So what has kept numbers of unscrupulous scientist down to a minimum? Ethics". This clearly shows that ethics is a must for researches. Millions of dollars were inputted into R&D, shown in the example where President of USA, Mr Barrack Obama, decided to set aside 10 billion US dollars for research in this field. If people without ethics, they will be corrupted and tend to fake research like Professor Hwang. This shows that ethics is a half-half status, where it is needed for some and not needed for some and that embryonic stem cell will create a stage where corruption will be high.

Stem cell research have created many cases of corruption but the benefits still stands out compared to others. Even when corruptions occurs, it will help many, with organs and cures debilitating diseases and cure people with stroke if possible. Many benefits have arise from this research and many needs it so it is important that this research continues. This research will help many people that are waiting for an organ or trying to overcome diseases such as stroke. Corruption is nothing but a small setback for a large advantage