WWW 41 Vocab Webs

Ethics and Commercialization

Jimmy describes the past society as one that is controlled by corporations. Large medical companies had built “compounds” in which their staff lived in. Similar to cities, but were much more: they were highly advanced, taking the best minds from the best schools. Examples of such “compounds” are OrganInc, AnooYoo and RejoovenEsense, all puns on words. These companies create and sell organs (in the case of OrganInc) or improvements to the human body (companies such as RejoovenEsense): a commercialization of the body. A major question which arises from the selling of such goods: Is the trade of such items ethical? In my personal opinion, I believe this to be as ethical as buying your groceries. When you buy an apple, which is harvested from a tree, is it killing the tree? Selling organs is ethical in my views, as it is not ending the life of an organism, and is beneficial to the humans in general. In today’s society, there are transplants, where donors give to the less fortunate; is that unethical? It is not seen by the general public as unethical. The unethical thoughts from this process are from underground trades from the black market. In the futuristic world given in Margaret Atwood’s book, all these sales are legal. Therefore, the commercialization of the human body is completely ethical.