playing God with nature theme
We are asked to what extent, if any, it is acceptable to willfully interfere with nature. Though breeding programs have been around for millennia, the advent of gene modification technology brings the question to a whole new level.
Examples
Reckless scientists learned a lesson about playing around with Nature when their genetically engineered super-babies turned out to be deadly company in tng2x07 "Unnatural Selection".
32 total · 2 choice · 21 major · 9 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ent1x13 | choice | Phlox didn't want to cure the pandemic afflicting the Valakians on the ground that it would be interfering with the natural unfolding of nature, and with it the rise to prominence of the Menk hominids. |
| tng2x07 | choice | genetically engineering the kids |
| futurama7x22 | major | Mom was accused of committed perverted genetic crimes against nature. |
| movie: Alraune (1928) | major | Professor Brinken was directly accused of playing God with nature by artificially inseminating a prostitute with a mandrake root and warned that he would pay for what he had done. |
| movie: Alraune (1930) | major | Professor Brinken was directly accused of playing God with nature by artificially inseminating a bar girl with a mandrake root and warned that he would pay for what he had done |
| movie: Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | major | Mary Shelly explains the moral of the original Frankenstein film in the introduction.; Henry Frankenstein creates a bride for the hideous monster of his own creation. |
| movie: Frankenstein (1910) | major | Frankenstein and the hideous monster of his own creation. |
| movie: Frankenstein (1931) | major | Frankenstein and the hideous monster of his own creation |
| movie: Frankenstein (2025) | major | Victor Frankenstein's work on reviving the dead using electricity was decried by the establishment as an unholy abomination, and that the giving and taking of life was the sole province of God. |
| movie: Frankenstein 1970 (1958) | major | Baron Victor von Frankenstein bought an atomic reactor, which he uses to create a living being, modeled after his own likeness before he had been tortured. |