This document summarizes and discusses the ethics around tracking and organ donation as portrayed in the film Never Let Me Go. It notes that in the film, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are clones raised at Hailsham school to believe their purpose is to donate organs until their death after a third donation. The document questions whether it is ethical for the medical facilities to use tracking technology to monitor the clones and ensure they cannot escape their fate. Applying Immanuel Kant's philosophy, the document argues that forcing organ donation without consent and using technology to deprive the clones of freedom is unethical, as it violates moral rules of individual autonomy and treating people as means rather than ends.

1. God vs. technology
Based off the movie
Never Let Me Go
Fatima Freeman
Ethics and Technology
May 10, 2012

2. God vs. Technology
• This a presentation that is
based off the film Never Let
Me Go and question the ethics
of using technology to track
people.
• The film starts with a narration
from the main character
named Kathy and she starts to
tell the audience about
growing up at a special school
called Hailsham.
• Where she befriended Tommy and
Ruth.
• However, later in the film the
audience learns the cold truth
about Hailsham.
• Hailsham is a school that teaches
Kathy, Ruth and Tommy that one
day that on their third donation
they will die.

3. • That is when as the audience
we should ask ourselves
• Why will Kathy, Ruth and
Tommy die after their third
donation?
• Therefore, the question of
ethics on the technology that
is been used to track people.
• The technology is used to
track Kathy, Ruth and Tommy
from escaping Hailsham.
• Now ask yourself this
question .
• Why would Kathy, Ruth and
Tommy want to escape
Hailsham when it is just a
school?

4. • This school raises Kathy, Ruth
and Tommy to believe that it is
their obligated duty to stay
healthy in order to save
mankind.
• How they save mankind is by
giving their organs as a donation
to help human beings defeat
disease and deformities.
• Donating organs is not
considered unethical, but the
idea of not having a choice in
whether I want to donate my
organs or not is.
• In the film Never Let Me Go a
world is created to make the
audience believe that we can
make a perfect world with no
disease and deformities.
• However, in the film made up
world of perfection Kathy, Ruth
and Tommy are been selected in
order for human beings to
breath longer without worrying
about getting ill or having any
type of deformities.

5. • Therefore, the medical
facilities idea of avoiding
disease and deformities
among human beings is to
have the organs removed
from Cathy, Ruth and
Tommy’s bodies.
• However, medical facilities
do not think of other means
to solve the problem of
disease and deformities
among human being and
the fact that clones are been
used the question of morals
and ethics is never asked.
• According to the rules of
ethics:
• For example, for any
medical personnel to
consider if using this
technology is ethical they
should consider the Kant
method.
• Kant creates a maxim rule
or the moral rule based on
the ethical issue.
• Therefore, the ethical rule
in the film Never Let Me
Go is should technology be
used to track human beings.

6. • In order for a medical
personnel to make further
ruling on whether tracking
human beings using
technology is to consider
why does this technology
need to be used to track
human beings.
• The reason that this
technology is been used is to
track Cathy, Ruth and
Tommy of when they become
a certain age they must
donate their organs.
• Therefore, this technology is
also to ensure that
Cathy, Ruth and Tommy do
not escape.
• To go through the process of
how medical personnel use
this technology for tracking
Cathy, Ruth and Tommy is
ethical or unethical is to
utilize the steps that apply to
the Kant Method.

7. • According to Kant the moral
rule that is based on the
ethical issue and the film
Never Let Me Go the moral
rule based on the ethical issue
is that should Cathy, Ruth and
Tommy be tracked using
technology so that they will
not escape so that their organs
are removed to save other
human being from disease
and deformities.
• Based on the universal rule of
the technology is been used to
track Cathy, Ruth and Tommy
is that all of the medical
personnel are using this
technology.
• However, using this
technology on Cathy, Ruth
and Tommy does not solve
the made up world of Never
Let Me Go.
• For example:
• If every medical personnel
were to use this technology to
track Cathy, Ruth and Tommy
just to remove their organs to
save mankind from diseases
and deformities then this
would fall in to the case of
murder.
• Plus, the question of moral
should be placed because
Cathy, Ruth nor Tommy were
ever asked if they wanted to
donate their organs.

8. • Also, if the medical personnel
has taken the power that they
hold over the weak and sick
too far .
• Furthermore, the thought of the
medical personnel are playing
God and that the medical
personnel never give any
information of who will be
receiving the organs.
• The idea of the medical
personnel using technology to
track Cathy, Ruth and Tommy
in order to keep them from
escaping so that their organ
can be removed to save
mankind is a self-destruction.
• What makes this idea self-
destruct because Cathy, Ruth
and Tommy can not escape
from donating their organs.
• Plus, they do not have a choice
but to donate their organs
because all through lives at
Hailsham they are taught that.
• Furthermore, because they are
clones that is how the made up
world of the film Never Let Me
Go see Cathy, Ruth and
Tommy lives as to just be
created to donate their organs
so that another human being
can breathe to see another day.

9. • Therefore, the idea of tracking
human beings sis unethical.
• However, it is ethical to
donate your organs, but when
it is up to that individual to
make that choice on their
own.
• Therefore, not to be forced to
donate their organs.

10. 2010 Never Let Me Go
Quin, Michael J
2009 Ethics in Technology 3rd Edition