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43Biotechnology in the MediaJoseph Adriano“When the patient woke up, his skeleton was missing, and the doctorwas never heard from again!” And thus the Medic from the popular TeamFortress 2 video game is introduced and we are pulled into his world of madscience. Biotechnology is a very touchy subject, and many people wonderhow far is too far? Although the Medic seems like a comical joke of a madscientist, he does represent the worst of what could come from thediscarding of our ethics to focus on engineering better people for the world.That being said, some advancements aren’t all that bad and perhaps thepoint of the video is to show that all good things come at a price. You can’treally expect to have cons without pros and vice-versa. For this analysis Iam prominently examining a video that explains the background of theMedic character from the Team Fortress 2 video game. The main aspect thathelps to reinforce the fear felt towards going down the wrong path on theroad of biotechnology is seen in the Medic’s mad actions, which is exactlywhy Sandel writes his argument opposing the rapid progress ofbiotechnology in his paper, The Case against Perfection. By displaying theMedic as a mad doctor rather than a visionary the video helps to instillhesitance towards pursuing biotechnology by creating fear of having aperson like the Medic ever exist. The second aspect of the video that