Brave New World, Chapter 17&18 - 'Brave New World is the Best Society Ever'

"In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble and heroic. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise. Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended-there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense. But there aren't any wars nowadays. The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving any one too much" (Huxley 237).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefits humanity is demonstrated when Helmholtz, John, and Bernard are brought to the Controller after being taken away from the hospital for throwing away soma. Once they were brought to the Controller, John, asked questions to why the people in the brave new world are conditioned to not believe or do certain things. The positive affects to living a world where people can be conditioned to believe in certain things is that people would not disagree on topics, there would be no crime, wars can be avoided at all costs because people would not get into conflicts about wanting to take over certain lands or having disagreeing views. The negative affects to living in the brave new world is that it could get boring at times because the people in this society do not have their own opinions on certain issues such as having women born sterile and children not having any parents to care for them.

Brave New World, Chapter 15&16 - 'Shakespeare is Dangerous'

"Why don't you let the see Othello instead? I've told you; it's old. Besides, they couldn't understand it. Yes, that was true. He remembered how Helmholtz had laughed at Romeo and Juliet. Well then, he said, after a pause, something new that's like Othello, and that they could understand" (Huxley 219).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefits humanity is demonstrated when the controller saw that John, the Savage had been reading his Shakespeare book and commented that the book is prohibited but he is one of the only people who have actually read because he can break the rules when he wants to. John then asked why the people in the brave new world are not allowed to read works such as Shakespeare and the controller claims it is because they do not people to have a liking to old things like Shakespeare but really it is probably because he does not want people to get any ideas and overthrow the society. The positive affects of restricting what people in a society has a like and dislike to is their would be no trends towards certain things and people would not bicker over what music is the best or what is best for their society. The negative affects to controlling people's likes and dislikes is if someone like John could come into the society and could start giving people in the society new ideas that could eventually lead to riots, wars and the destruction of the brave new world society.

Brave New World, Chapter 13&14 - 'Death is at Your Doorstep'

" Disgraceful? But what do you mean? They're being death-conditioned. And I tell you, she warned him truculently, if I have any more of you interference with their conditioning, I'll send for the porters and you thrown out" (Huxley 203).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefits humanity is demonstrated when John  get angry at some of the children that come into the hospital to be conditioned on the topic of death and they keep coming towards Linda's bed and disturbing her and John. John tried to get the nurse to remove the children from the hospital room but she would not allow it because she saw that it was no the children that were the problem it was John who was disturbing their conditioning. The positive affects of death-conditioning children at fairly young age is as they older the children will know how to react when someone they are close with is sent to the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying which means that a person will not return to the brave new world society once admitted and that they will more likely be forgotten by the people close to them. The negative affects of death conditioning children at such a young age is that when someone such as John is visiting someone close to them in the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying, they will be disturbed continuously by the loud children asking many questions such as why are the people in the beds in the hospital to begin with and will not leave the people on their death beds die in peace.  

Brave New World, Chapter 12 - 'Danger to Society'

"A pity, he thought, as he signed his name. it was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose-well, you didn't know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes-make them lose their faith in the happiness at the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge" (Huxley 177).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefits humanity is demonstrated when Mustapha Mond reads a paper on Biology which was written by one of the conditioned scientist's in the brave new world. Once he reads it Mond finds the paper fairly interesting but it would be a threat to the society so he chooses for the paper to not be published and for the author to be sent to St. Helena. The positive affects of living in a society where everyone is conditioned and to only believe in certain aspects of the world is that the people in this society rarely have to think about what something is if they do not know what it is such as trying to know what the difference between a prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. The negative affects to living in this type of society is that when someone such as the scientist who wrote the paper on biology are seen as a danger to the brave new world society because they could possibly decondition some of the unsettled minds like Bernard's and then they get sent away to far more worse to live and can never have their opinions heard seriously by their peers.

Brave New World, Chapter 11 - 'Judgement by Appearance'

"Finally-and this was by far the strongest reason for people's not wanting to see poor Linda-there was her appearance. Fat; having lost her youth; with bad teeth, and a blotched complexion, and that figure (Ford!)-you simply couldn't look at her without feeling sick, yes, positively sick" (Huxley 153).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefits humanity is demonstrated when Linda returns from the reservation in New Mexico and her appearance had changed since she had been in the brave new world. All of the people in the brave new world wanted nothing to do with her because she had aged past thirty, got fat probably from having her child John, and had horrible teeth. The positive affects of being able to look young until someone dies is that people do not have to worry about health problems and a person does not have to deal with growing wrinkles on the skin which most people would have to usually worry about. The negative affects of not aging past thirty is that when someone such as Linda comes from the reservation people are utterly disgusted by them because they are actually aging past thirty, and their figure is different from everyone else's such as the women because in the reservation women actually give birth to children instead of children being born in a hatchery in the brave new world society.

Brave New World, Chapter 9&10 - 'Drugs Are Life'

"Lenina felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday. As soon as they got back to they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity. It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in time again" (Huxley 140).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefits humanity is demonstrated when Lenina and Bernard returned from the reservation in New Mexico Lenina, felt disturbed from her day there and decided to take a large amount of soma to get away from the horrifying day she had. The positive side to using soma is that it will allow someone to retreat from any stressful things happening in their lives and depending on how much of it a person takes they can away from their problems for hours on end. The negative side to using soma is that once someone starts taking the drug to get away from their problems it makes them completely dependent on it to use to get away from any stress or problems a person may be experiencing in their life instead of actually dealing with their problems or stress head on.

Brave New World, Chapter 8 - 'Information Memorization'

"What are chemical? he would ask. Oh, stuff like magnesium salts, and alcohol for keeping the Deltas and Epsilons small and backward, and calcium carbonate for bones, and all that sort of thing. But how do you make chemicals, Linda? Where do they come from? Well, I don't know.You get them out of bottles. And when the bottles are empty, you send up to the Chemical Store for more. It's the Chemical Store people who make them, I suppose. Or else they send to the factory for them. I don't know, I never did any chemistry. My job was always with the embryos" (Huxley 130).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefits humanity is demonstrated when John asks his mother Linda, some questions he had after reading the she gave him to improve his reading which was on the conditioning of embryos. But since Linda had grown up in the brave new world could not give John any straight answers, she only answered him with only the things she knew from the job she had as a Beta in the Fertilizing Room. The positive effects of only knowing the information that was sleep taught to you for you needed to know for your future job is that when someone becomes of the age to start working they would not have to look at multiple different positions to apply for to get a job, they would automatically have a job waiting for them because of the information thy already know for that position. The negative effects to this is that when someone asked them questions about there job like John did with Linda asking about where chemicals come from, that person would most unlikely be able to answer it correctly because they only know the information that was sleep taught to them for the potential jobs they would go on to do.