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An interesting question was posed on the handout we receieved in class; "Why didn't Frankenstein just shoot his creation and be done with it?" I think Frankenstein considered his creation as his child, a child that he "gave birth to" and morally/ethically he couldn't just kill it, even if it meant causing harm to those he loved. He loved the monster just as he would a member of his own family. Another question that was on the sheet was "Can we go to far with technological knowledge." The main reason I find the question so intriguing is because I recently read a book that deals with that whole issue. The book was Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller. He wrote the book in three stages, the first being we had just demolished the earth with nuclear weapons and some monks were trying to recreate the technology they had. In the second part, they figure out the technology (nuclear weapons) and in the third they end up destroying the world again. To me it seems that the quest for knowledge, even if in the beginning had a good intent, almost always seems to cause harm because people are greedy. In the book the characters couldn't, or were unwilling to, learn from their past, and I guess all we can hope for is that it doesn't happen toto the world we're living in at this moment.

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