Q3 Blog 2: Deductive

When i ask most people around my neighborhood "which sport is the best in the world" most would answer "Football" i am here to argue that statement and say that the best sport in the world is soccer. There are many sports in the world and none of them compare to the popularity soccer has. Statistics show that around the world over 3 billion people like soccer. At my school there are constant arguments about whether or not football is the best sport in the world and the so called "enemy" of the argument of whether or not football is the best sport in the world would have to be soccer. Not only that soccer is also one of the hardest sports to play and requires a lot of time and practice to master. Although some may argue that there are other sports that require as much skill as soccer such as football. However i would say that to be a football player all one needs to do would be to gain a lot of weight and muscle and you would be perfect for the game. The sport football does not require any stamina or skill because there are time-outs half of the game and the only actual players that need to be skilled would have to be the quarterback, because he has to have accuracy and precision to be able to throw the ball and score, and the running backs because they need to be really fast and have at least a good amount of stamina because they have to be able to run the ball faster and be able to get to the touchdown before anybody tackles them. Football is a spot that only requires brute force and strength while soccer on the other hand is a sport that requires speed, stamina, skill and precision. Soccer is also the best sport in the world because there are no time outs not 30 second plays and full of competition from all around the world, not just from the United States. In my school the most played sport everyday happens to be soccer because all u need to play is a ball and a bunch of friends.

Q3 blog 1: inductive

Should parents have the right to genetically modify their child?

I always wonder what it must feel like to be deaf or to be blind: being a 16 year old teenager who can hear and who is not blind i cannot fully make the jump between the two different worlds. However, i have had the privilege of talking to a person who is blind before and he seemed very content and happy with his life. Then i asked him the question: "if you had the chance to be able to see would you take it?" he answered very sternly, "no because i love my life the way it is because i can pay attention to things that others who can see cant." Many people who are blind would probably say the exact same thing, but, they probably only say that because they have never been able to see the beauty of this world. Parents should have the chance and right to genetically modify their children to be able to see or to eliminate any kind of deformity because the child should have every right to be able to live their life without being segregated and without being handicapped in anyway. In the movie Gattaca a genetically inferior man by the name of Vincent Freeman is able to achieve his dream through hard work and determination. Having seen this movie more than once i am able to see and understand the topic of genetically modifying a child and even though this movie is an example of a person succeeding without his parents genetically modifying him, parents should still have the right to genetically modify their child. Just because it happened to one person does not mean that it will happen for everybody else and there is not one person i know who wouldn't want to have an advantage at something like a test, so why not have an advantage in life? Although some may argue and say that genetically modifying a person is wrong and by doing so we are taking that child's free will away, i would say that if we don't we are just condemning that child to a life of segregation and separation that they don't have to live. All we would be doing by genetically modifying a child is making sure that that child has the best possible life with nothing to drag them down and is that not what every "good" parent wants?