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Human Nature (2019)
VERY informational and easy to watch
I'm not really someone who likes watching documentaries, but when I was watching this, not going to lie but this film does a very good job catching my attention not just the descriptive information, but also the aspects of film. The VFX provided excellent examples and the shots make the film smooth to watch.
When it comes to talking about human genes, being able to manually change them is truly game changing for humanity. In the history for humanity, people were born with random genes. Random things that make up who they are and they don't have a choice to decide who they want. Even worse, if they have a mutation or a disease created within their genes, those errors get passed down their generations. When people have kids, events such as the Baby Boom after the second World War, people were having kids like rolling dices. But what if this whole time, humanity has their chance to DECIDE who they have to be? Whether or not you want to be a boy or girl, what color you want for your hair, your eyes, what shape you want your head to be, humanity would have probably perfected themselves long ago if they were given this chance. I personally think the reason we have made it this far to 2020 is through the power of technology. With are limitless minds, we started to use technology to our advantage, giving everyone no matter who they a chance to live in the same world. Which is why being able to start changing our genes will be a huge impact to us. However, there is a consequence when it comes to this and I think this film does a really good job explaining it. If we started to have the power to decided who we are and what genes our children will have, won't all of us aim to pick the best traits possible? Not only something dangerous like that could happen but, if we are able to gain that kind of power, will it also harm what it means to be human? I agree with the film that we have a mind set that if we ever have kids, we would want to give them something to let us know that they are a part of us. We would pick changes that would of course benefit our children. But little did we know, each change we make would strand ourselves farther away from them. We still have to pay attention to the changes we make because we may also, like the video said, "make changes we don't intend to make". I've always known that competition is something most of humanity love to do for some WHATEVER reason. Given our powers to decide even more, conflicts may increase perhaps. Pain for example, is something nobody likes. But if you think about it, it is a necessity for us to live. Without pain, how will we know how close we are to the edge of death like the teenager in Pakistan?
Overall, technology is something that would change is forever. We have always used technology to our advantage, to defy the laws of mother nature. While being able to change ourselves can be a next big step for humanity, we also have to think about the consequences. We need to ask ourselves: Why is it that we can never pick our genes in the first place? Why is it that we are imperfect? Something I have always said to myself: If the world was perfect, if the world was fair, humanity would have destroyed itself long gone. We have to make sure we do not take science too far, to the point where we make our fates even worse than death.