Nick Traver- NLMG connection
This book might seem like it is so far out there as people are being cloned or basically grown for their organs, but actually the book isn't that far fetched. According to the facts from here, on average every ten minutes someone is added to the national transplant waiting list, and 20 people die each day. So is it so crazy to assume that someone in today's society, someone either with intentions to save lives or simply make money, would clone humans? Science today can do more than in years prior and with new technology, cloning is possible, and maybe the reason cloning was created in the first place was for a way to harvest organs. There are places in the world, including the United States, where people sell their organs for large sums of money. So it is possible that people would consider cloning humans to make a buck in a society today that is so focused on money and material possessions. According to the facts from here, in 2010 alone 11,000 organs were obtained from the black market, so from a finiancial standpoint it would be much cheaper and more practical to clone and harvest people for their organs rather than a person, a real human, giving an individual organ for a larger sum of money. So Never Let Me Go, might be a work of fiction but some of the aspects contained in it aren't as strange or as impossible as you might of thought.
(I already commented on another post prior to this but) I think it's a really good real-world comparison to never let me go because you talk about the ethical dilemmas that we face currently with with cloning. You lead us to believe the concept of if we could eventually find ourselves within a dystopian universe. Because in never let me go, outside of Hailsham everyone is living pretty normal lives while exploiting the organs of the children, but the true dystopia is within Hailsham. I think you introduce a really cool idea with this relation!
ReplyDeleteWell done Traver!