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This week at school, we discussed cheating and violence. It reminded me of a very important lesson — don’t cheat your violence. We all know that we must not cheat on things. Don’t cheat on your exams, don’t cheat on your boyfriend, don’t cheat on your dentist appointments by wearing dentures because they will find out, etc. Yet not many are familiar with “don’t cheat your violence.” Violence is scary. It is so scary that at times it can capture us, especially extremely violent violence which may even include death. The narrator in the “Videotape” by DeLillo loves the violent violence very much, likely more than he loves his wife Janice. Yet despite cheating on his wife with violence, he is not cheating his violence. He is respecting violence and its capabilities and power. He is trembling in fear to the god of mortality. He is scared of his own being being a being of nothing, of being finite in an infinite world. He lives knowing that his destiny is the throw of a dart to a dartboard, ...

 In my opinion, gene editing is one of the most interesting developments in modern technology. Despite Raymo’s best wishes, I may or may not have fallen under the allure of the many possibilities which can come from this field, such as curing health conditions and diseases, injecting yourself with effective exercise and strength, living for up to 1000’s of years, etc. We are not quite there yet, but since many Troy High kids have expressed interest in the field of biotechnology, I’m relying on them for these major breakthroughs. In my opinion, a world which is the exact same when I leave it as it was when I entered it is utterly depressing. Progress is too exciting for humans to not chase after it. It has also undeniable made the quality of life overall better. A “measure of restraint” is of course useful in order to maintain the ethics of our society, however, it’s fun to imagine the crazed possibilities which might occur in a transhumanist society. Here are some of my opinions on...

    The vast, open fields on the prairie with nothing but bushels of grass for miles; the hot and humid jungle where the sun is covered in darkness; the dry and empty desert, seemingly devoid of life. Would you like to live in any of these places?      Surely not!!!     I’m sure everyone would much rather prefer to stay in their cozy little homes with built in air-conditioning and nice comfy beds with a fluffy pillow, surrounded by almost every possible convenience they could ever want in a ten mile radius.     Many humans complain that we, as a society, are not doing enough to preserve our environment, and thereby claim that our society is controlled by evil corporate overloads maliciously destroying the environment to maximize their profit. They are of course correct, but their efforts to change this are unfortunately in vain. Not because people like you and me are evil and don’t care about the environment, but because human society was nev...