Struggling To Stay Human

What Makes Us Human....

In Nick Bostrom's TED talk, he discusses many of the different ways in which humans can "enhance themselves" to make them "better humans." I have to say...I STRONGLY disagree with much of what he claims, "Make humans better." Although, I am in support of life saving medicine, and scientific research, I am not in favor of the dependency of the human rave on those stimulants. At one point in the talk he discusses how scientists have been able to genetically engineer mole rates to be monogamous, claiming that one day this could be how marriages stay together. HELLO! Am i the only one out there that sees the lack of romance in that. In what Disney movie did you ever see the princess and the prince running off to be genetically altered so that they could live happily ever after. A micro chip isn't going to make marriages work. It is the poison apple, the narcolepsy, and they fact that they are from two different worlds -- that is what keeps them together. It is the struggles that lead them to happily ever after.

The struggles in our lives are what makes us human. The pain, the heart ache, the bad luck....all things that are uncontrollable, thus, all things that make us HUMAN. Although, we try to avoid these scenarios it is still a part of our lives. Love wouldn't be such a gift if it was always a match. And life wouldn't be such an adventure if you knew there was no risk to it. Life is a complicated web to struggles with a few moments of bliss. At least that is the kind of life i would want...