Thoughtlessness of Science

Felix Hoenikker was creating ice-nine in his home, "Apparently, before he sat down in his wicker chair and died, the old man played puddly games in the kitchen with and pots and pans and ice-nine. He must have been converting water to ice-nine and back to water again, for every pot and pan was out on the kitchen countertops. A meat thermometer was out, too, so the old man must have been taking the temperature of things. The old man meant to take only a brief time out in his chair, for he left quite a mess in the kitchen. part of the disorder was a saucepan filled with solid ice-nine." Right after this, this was when the kids took the ice nine from their father; the creation of Ice-nine has devastated thousands of hundreds of lives and these people take it for granite. Felix Hoenikkers' kids did not think about anyone beside themselves. They disregarded humanity when they took the ice nine. Ice nine was a dangerous creation, Hoenikker kids used ice nine for their own selfish reasons,"The Hoenikkers couldn't remember that anyone said anything to justify their taking ice-nine as personal property."(Cats Cradel pg.168) .Human desires is what is meant to be human. People do not care for the sake of others when it comes to science. Science was created and discoveries were made because people were supposed to find ways to make people lives better. In this story however the leading leaders did not care about other people hence why he was playing the string game "cats cradle."  There was a quote from the book that mentioned the cats cradle the quote said, "All of humanity attempts to define and discover the meaning of life are nothing more than a cat's cradle, a funny-looking string that has not become a cat or a cradle" is a reflection of our lives. People like celebrities, athletes, and figure heads are nothing more than people trying to define themselves in life. People have the desire to be known and be remembered after they have past away. None of this actually matters, the only thing that matters is that people pass on their genes and reproduce. This brings it back to science, science is important in our lives, it may go against some religions but science provides new ways to keep people living and make people happy.