ssful paradise, “Thus BNW doesn’t, and isn’t intended by its author, to evoke just how wonderful our lives could be if the human genome were rewritten. Let’s say out DNA will be spliced and edited so we can all enjoy life-long bliss, awesome peak experiences, and a spectrum of outrageously good designer drugs” (Brave New World? 2). What this argument sounds like is someone who wants to live a life of constant pleasure without having to be accountable for mistakes, errors, or even emotions that would normally be engendered by their actions.
In Huxley’s novel he suggests that this type of universal happiness is not only unrealistic but goes on to suggest a far worse scenario-a world in which the price for that happiness comes at the sacrifice of most things equated to being a human being, like motherhood, home, family, freedom and love. However, some who argue against Huxley’s scenario believe technology will not create a world of clones with no identi
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