Counterpart of Social Darwinism - A Human Society Needs the Disabled

Scientific Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, , language: English, abstract: ...The President of the Germany Johannes Rau said in his Berlin address on May 18, 2001 that sickness and disability will always belong to human life. Therefore the goal of realizing false standards of the "e;perfect person"e; with the help of genetic engineering should be rejected. However what are involved are not only false standards of the perfect person. What are at stake are true for false standards for our society, worldly ethics and human dignity. In Germany, the considerable approval of the population for pre-implantation diagnosis (PID) is only supported out of fear of disability. This fear is individually very legitimate and should not be belittled. Still this fear and the readiness to transgress ethical limits is ambivalent if not foolish. What does it say about a society that writes strength, beauty and wealth on its banners while new tablets of law celebrate the idea of aggressive competition? Everywhere the impression is that survival is at stake. You must be the best, the strongest and the winner. If you are not, others will be is the message. In this perspective, every possibility for manipulating one s life and foreign life must be thankfully accepted.