Well it’s finally happened! “It” being me finally remembering to post a blog for today. As it stands now, the first half of my task has been accomplished. The second half would be to actually think of an interesting topic to post and relate it to bioethics. I suppose it can’t be too difficult because if you really think about, anything can be related to bioethics in some way. Take this blog site for instance, there are obvious benefits for students to have such a resource at their disposal as they can freely share their thoughts with others or help each other when someone is in need of an outside source’s opinion on a subject. However, doesn’t that also appear to be a drawback? I might just be over thinking things but doesn’t having the ability to get the opinions of others on a topic diminsh one’s individuality? It’s an odd thought but just bare with me. The last time my class discussed their blog posts, there were some who admitted to checking the posts of others before starting their own to get a sense of what to talk about. Hell, I admit that I’m guilty for doing that before starting this very post before realizing that it’s a “freeblog” or something (I lost my syllabus). Anyway, I think individuality is very important and something everyone should have but being the social creatures that we naturally are, thinking and acting for oneself would seem to go against our nature but I believe that we, as humans, are a very compotent species that are capable of going against our nature. Now I feel like I’m rambling so I guess I’ll finish this post with a quote. Oscar Wilde once said “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”