Gattaca

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Gattaca
Genetic Imperfection
Genetic Perfection
Genetically privileged
valid
discrimination
invalid
DNA
natural birth
manipulation
genetic engineering
faith births
genetic flaws
Genetics
creation
identity
degenerates
freedom
Bible Ecclesiastes 713 "Consider what God has
done Who can straighten what he has made
crooked?
Nature vs Nurture
free-will
Eugenics
evolution
genetic selection
parentage
determinism
reproduction
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Science?

• Science Fiction
• Dick Allen
• Is it any wonder that a new generation has
  rediscovered science fiction, rediscovered a form
  of literature that argues through its intuitive
  force that the individual can shape and change
  and influence and triumph that man can eliminate
  both war and poverty that miracles are possible
  that love, if given a chance, can become the main
  driving force of human relationships?

• Science Faction
• Definition of Eugenics The study of hereditary
  improvement of the human race by controlled
  selective breeding.

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Anton
"My real resume is in my cells. They have
discrimination down to a science."
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• Consider what is already possible?
• Consider what may (and may not) become possible?
• Consider what should be possible?
• Implications of genetic testing for evolving
  human society?

Current trends in human genome analysis?
A future society in which the limits of each
individual are set at birth from the genetic data
in a drop of blood?
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Why does Vincent never attempt to fight the
system and only try to outwit it?
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A bleak and sterile picture of a future society

• the desire for perfection has resulted in
  conformity
• where a single cell, single hair, or single drop
  of blood can identify their owner