In the essay “The Man on the Moon” written by George J. Anna’s, argues about historical occurrences that make the statement “human rights and human dignity depend on our human nature or weather we have been genetically engineered into ‘superior’ ideal human beings” possibly true. When Columbus believed he has found “New Land” he was also determined to stop the Native Americans who were already living on this “New Land” to convert their way of living and religion. Columbus believed in the Catholic Church and believed in Catholic Religion. He converted these Natives and it resulted in genocidal destruction.
In Gattaca people were being genetically engineered. They were trying to make people superior and better. In Gattaca normal human beings weren’t allowed to work in big institutions, only genetically engineered people were. As in the essay Columbus believed in the Catholic Church and wanted to convert all Native Americans. In the movie Gattaca people believed in the “ideal human” they wanted to change as many people as they could. In Gattaca people who weren’t genetically engineered were being downgraded and treated as if they were slaves as well for the Native Americans. In both the essay and the movie both the Native Americans and the normal human beings who were called “God Children” were deprived of their lives. These people have been living in their world, without any change whatsoever.
In the essay the “Man on the Moon” if you were superior and had the power to change society, then that’s what you were going to do, that’s what Columbus did. In the movie Gattaca, if you had the power to develop a perfect ideal human, that that’s what you were going to do. In both the essay and movie it is proven that the more power and dignity you have in yourself the more likely chance you have to accomplish that goal.
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