Why Is Charlie Gordon Unethical

Ethics are the difference between right or wrong, to follow laws, what humans are supposed to do, common sense, rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or culture. Charlie Gordon is a slow person that was experimented on to be more intelligent. Charlie Gordons doctors acted ethically when they performed surgery on him to make him smart. The doctors had all medical indications and agreed to do the operation (Siegler). Some say Charlies doctors did not act ethically when they did the operation on him because its not natural for humans to do that.

Who is Charlie Gordon? Charlie Gordon is a mentally regressed that has a surgery to make himself as smart or smarter than an average man. After His surgery has many good and bad experiences, he also starts having moral questions about the surgery while he experiences the side effects. The question is was he better off before or after the surgery. Charlie Gordon was better off after the surgery.

They only cared about what they would get from the experiment, It didn’t matter what happened to Charlie. Charlie Gordon's doctors also didn’t think of what would happen to his after the surgery, Charlie ended up losing his job because people found it wrong for Charlie to end up learning all this information so quickly. He also

Petrina Arvanitakis Putman Hour 2-4 15 November 2016 Argument Essay Ethics are the acts, behaviors, or motives and if they are 'right or wrong '. In 'flowers for Algernon ' Charlie Gordon is a man who is disabled from low intelligence. Unfortunately, his doctors were not ethical when performing the procedure to make him smarter. Algernon was a small mouse that what a friend of Charlie 's, and he died in the procedure.

Two brave doctors decided to do a lifechanging procedure on Charlie to make him smarter. This completely changed his life. Such a transformative action was challenging more than Charlie, but the worlds morals. Some question the medical ethics, or the ground morals of a population, of this procedure. Charlie Gordon 's doctors did act ethically when they preformed the surgery to make him smarter.

Should Charlie Have Had the Operation “ I want to be smart and I’ll try real hard”. This is Charlie Grodman he is the main character I will be talking about today. He is from the book “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. I will tell you why he should of had the operation. I think that it was substantial for him to get a taste of being normal.

Charlie was a likable person before the operation, all the doctors came to wish him luck: "lots of people who gave me tests came to bring me candy and wish me luck"(314). This shows Charlie was loved and liked by many people in his life before the operation. After the operation, he was not that liked by the doctors who were angry at his unwillingness and for missing two weeks of journal entry's, "Dr.Strauss is very angry at me for not having written any progress reports in two weeks"(329). He also started to lose respect of the doctors after learning they only knew two languages:"I realized Dr.Nemur is not all genius. . . . Dr.Strauss on the other hand might be called a genius, although I feel that his area of knowledge are to limited"(330-1).

Matthew Gafrick Putman Hour 5 15 November 2016 Argument Paper Ethics is the standard form of right and wrong, what others can or can't do. Ethics helps people to not commit bad deeds, and it helps them to live up to standards. In the book Flowers for Algernon two doctors need to make an ethical decision. It's on weather or not to preform an operation on an unintelligent man named Charlie Gordon. Charlie Gordons doctors did not act ethically when they preformed the surgery to make him smart; because they took advantage of his condition and failed to share the possible consequences to Charlie.

I think that Charlie should have the surgery because of these 3 reasons, he is super smart, he realizes a lot more things in life , and that he can power through depression. The first reason that Charlie should have the surgery is that he is

I think Charlie is being treated unfairly because they said that the test is going to work on him, but it isn’t working on him right away. When Charlie is taken to have his surgery done he wants to be away for it, but they put him to sleep. If they have to put him to sleep they should tell him because it sometimes makes people feel bad. After the surgery Charlie was wonder if he was smart, but then he noticed that he is still learning the same. As the days move on Charlie is getting smarter.

One reason that Charlie was better off before the surgery was because he had the motivation to learn. on page 268, Charlie Gordon says, “Mrs. Kinnian told that I was her bestest pupil in the adult nite scool becaus I tryed the hardest and reely wanted to lern.” This means that Charlie had the motivation to learn to be smart and he tried harder than anyone, so that was why she

Charlie was better off after the surgery because Charlie realized things he couldn’t before. One example is when he realized the people he considered friends were making fun of him. ‘’’…now I know what it means to pull a Charlie Gordon I’m ashamed…’’’ Although they were the ones being mean to him he still respected them and helped them learn new things.

However, after the surgery, Charlie finds intelligence was a nice treat but was far from an importance in life and only took him away from what truly mattered. One could believe Charlie was wrong to undergo the surgery because of the side effects that came with the surgery such as physical and emotional instability, and amnesia, the depresion it came with, and how he lost all of his friends and loved ones with his extreme intelligence. First off, one reason Charlie should not have gotten the surgery is the depression and suicidal thoughts it came with for

He also became bitter which made him all alone without friends or family at the end of the story. The surgery was a disturbing encounter physical and intellectually and just caused Charlie to feel isolated. If the knowledge was permanent the surgery could have

At the same time, one might suggest the operation wasn't permanent. Though this may be true, Charlie was clearly able to win the respect of intelligent people like Miss Kinnian and Dr Strauss. Similarly, he earned the appreciation of honest critics. In the end, Charlie did