Biologically Enhancing Soldiers - 1158 Words

Connor Gabriel Biologically Enhancing Soldiers Our ability to upgrade the bodies of soldiers through drugs, implants, and exoskeletons may be upending the ethical norms of war as we ve understood them.I first saw in the movie, Captain America.The only difference now is that this possibility is slowly becoming a possible reality. The possibilities are endless by doing this to soldiers, whom are willing of going thru the process. From having soldiers that don’t need sleep or only need to eat 1 MRE ( Meal Ready to Eat) a week. Almost any idea we could think of in biologically improving a soldier, could actually happen, and will only benefit the soldier and the military as a whole. Imagine if you were a soldier, stuck behind enemy†¦show more content†¦This idea is a win win for both the military and US population by simply how it saves money and food. The use of human enhancement technologies by the military is not new. Broadly construed, vaccinations could count as an enhancement of the human immune system, and this would place the first instance of military human enhancement (as opposed to mere tool-use) at our very first war, the American Revolutionary War in 1775-1783. George Washington, as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, ordered the vaccinations of American troops against smallpox, as the British Army was suspected of using the virus as a form of biological warfare. Having said that, how can one argue that this isn’t a safe or legal action due to the fact that the first President. George Washington, gave the orders to due so? Due to these enhancements being biologically, and one of the ideas is enhancing soldiers to not feel pain or possibly even fear. Everyone is aware that war is a terrifying place. Imagine an army of soldiers that do not feel pain or even fear itself. Being able to take bullets without even flinching. Also, having the possibility of giving someone the ability to not feel fear would advance our military to an indescribable level. By not feeling fear, soldiers decision making would speed up, and be more reasonably do to not being scared. What if a soldier gets captured and is tortured