"We can electrify that whole strip of floor, bawled the Director in explanation. But that's enough, he signaled to the nurse. The explosions ceased, the bells stopped ringing, the shriek of the siren died down from tone to tone into silence. The stiffly twitching bodies relaxed, and what had become the sob and yelp of infant maniacs broadened out once more into a normal howl of ordinary terror. Offer the the flowers and the books again. The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror; the volume of their howling suddenly increased" (Huxley 21).
In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefit humanity is demonstrated in this passage when the Director ordered the nurses to electrify the children from favoring flowers and books to having a strong dislike towards them. The positive side to electrify children at a young age to either favor a certain things such as favoring a certain genre of music or to dislike things such as having a string dislike for drinking alcohol or any type of drug. The negative side to electrify children to have a strong dislike towards something can be horrible because when you electrify a child's brain to dislike a certain group of people such as the Deltas in the novel, it can cause serious harm towards others if the scientists are not careful. In the past the white race developed a group known as the KKK that was for people who hated the African Americans and the KKK would set the African Americans houses down with them in it, and many other things. But the children who grew up around that kind of attitude to dislike a certain race of people they would have it already set in their brain to not like that minority race and may not have their own opinion.
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