The fight

                SO I watch “The Fight of the Century” last night. I now see why no one likes boxing anymore. This isnt really much of news/current events or related to any of my past posts but I had a personal experience with this that I have to share.

                Watching old videos of Mike Tyson, Ali, and many others that were worth watching, I noticed how much better and different boxing was back then. Usually when someone says “Oh, It used to be cool but now its not as awesome” I ignore it, I hear it all the time. This is the case though for boxing. Before you had monsters of men going at each other, almost killing each other before the first round is over. Now you have two tiny men trying not to get hit.

                The part that made it so unenjoyable for me was of course the hype. You have a the two men that have been anticipated to fight for the last 5 years, it’s probably the only public fight anyone has actually cared about in the last 10 years.  After years of negotiations and talks of it never happening, it finally did and everyone was so ready for it, but then the fight started.

                Before the fight even started I hated it. All the commentators or anyone could talk about was the money. I mean, although they made 128,000 dollars a second, which is mind-blowing, I don’t need to hear it every ten seconds. I don’t need to hear how much the seats cost or which celebrities attended. I just became annoying, the fight was more about the money than they actually match and it shows in the fight as well. It was so ridiculous, Burger King and Justin Bieber followed Mayweather onto the ring, Jimmy Kimmel took a selfie with Pacquiao walking out, and it was a total circus, not a boxing match.

                The match was even worse. At first you think that these boxing matches are action packed and full of violence like you want, but this is not the case with Floyd Mayweather. Now I could bash Mayweather for hours (illiterate, worst human being on earth, thinks he’s the best, blah blah) but ill sapre all that and just say he fights like a scared cat, he wins but he fights so defensively. IT makes it so boring were one guy is just hugging and avoiding contact the whole match. Everyone feels the same way and it just killed the sport even more. IT was already dying but this was the finishing blow. The one fight that has been anticipated for 5 years and had hundreds of millions at stake just had to be absolutely awful.  The millions of people that tuned in could have brought a new spark to boxing, instead it got a KO.

                 

The silent ones

                SO I’m not going to talk about Baltimore that much, it’s not really my place to give my input and you never know who you might offend by talking about this stuff. For those unaware or living under a rock for the last week because the media is on this 24/7, Freddie Grey, a man was killed by a spinal injury due to the police. 6 of them have been charged with at least involuntary manslaughter and now the people have taken to the streets.

                So the other day, my friend showed me an article that changed my view a lot on the situation (http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/03/us/freddie-gray-balitmore-protests/). This article shows the amount of non-violent protest going on in the city, a lot more. This gave me a ultimate respect for the city but also a hate for the media.

                I’ve talked about before how the media are just out to make a story and how much they influence use, this is just an example. They focus so much on the bit of violence and protest going on in the city, they just amplify everything bad. They take Baltimore and make it into a city of turmoil and chaos. While in some areas this is probably the case, it isn’t just taking over the city of Baltimore. The peaceful protestors are the heroes here and yet I haven’t heard about them and I probably wouldn’t have until a few days ago. The media is so desperate just to make a good story they praise and follow the people who are looting and destroying their town while they leave the people who protest right, silent. The people who aren’t criminals, who have a argument and want change, they are left silent.  

Risks not worth taking

                DNA is who we are. I talked about it in another blog post on how DNA is us, our bodies and minds function around it. This blog I want to talk about the science advancements of ourselves and how it will be hindered.

                Modification of our DNA can cause some serious changes. We might be able to cure diseases, change our appearance, and give us many different qualities. Just moving a few molecules around in our cells can change us forever. Changing our DNA could cause a lot of breakthroughs for curing diseases. Along with this, DNA modification can make us better humans.

                This week, the Chinese have decided to preform research and modify embryo DNA. This is the first time such research has occurred and it’s caused global outcry. The US has responded that they will not be preforming DNA modification for clinical purposes. This whole issue has caused major controversy and it’s extremely important to talk about.

                I feel changing humans isn’t right. Making us something we aren’t doesn’t seem moral or humane. IT seems unbelievable dangerous and risky. Even if immense amounts of testing is done, 1 little unknown or mistake can totally destroy another human being. Should we really mess with something that can kill us so easily? Should we be tampering the things that make us live in the first place? Sure there are mistakes in the human body but do we have to strive to fix every single problem, probably for the cost of lives?? WE have already taken over the world, no other species comes close to us, why change something that has done so much? We have made the internet, metal flying machines, things to let us live absolutely anywhere in the world, and we haven’t been stopped. Why change humans? We have evolved to become the most powerful species in the world.

                Although humans are perfect though, we can always get better. That’s what made us such a dominate species. I see the point in just saying denying science just because its inhumane might hurt us in the future, we are losing value able information because of the ethics. Its worth it though, we have stopped research on a lot of other projects too. If we let human research just happen without any sort of restriction, we would know a lot more about the body. WE don’t do that though, we don’t sacrifice the lives of others just to know more. Lives should be more important to us than knowledge. Going into DNA might broaden our knowledge of ourselves greatly but it won’t be worth it if we risk losing ourselves.  Knowledge and research has boundaries to make that not happen.