This past weekend, I watched the 2016 thriller movie, The Thinning. The movie's plot revolves around in the year 2039 when the Earth's resources have been depleted due to overpopulation. This leads the government to create a test known as 10-241 to cut the population by 5% each year. Students who pass the exam, are allowed to live while those who fail are "decontaminated". I won't go deep into the plot for any of those who wish to see this movie, and I highly recommend you do but it brought great questions into my head. Out of all the films I have seen that attempt to depict the future of the world, this one I felt impacted with me the most. I could literally relate to how nervous each student felt while they were taking the test. The feeling of dread while awaiting the test results was all too relatable. If the government could create such an exam to this magnitude would this be ethical? We are already discussing how a GPA does not accurately represent the intelligence of a student so why should one state wide exam determine if a student is fit to live? Can the government even decide to pass a law such as this? Why should it be a test, why cannot it be another form of exam with multiple tries? Overpopulation is ongoing topic, with different solutions that need to be executed yet a passing exam score should not be one of them.
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Adrienne Horca
4/19/2017 01:01:59 pm
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