Human Enhancement and the Effects of Chasing Perfection from a Moral Perspective

Name ID

Sandy Ezzat Mazouz 211002137

Nadeen Mohamed Abdelhamed 211001761
Noureen Abdulwahed 211001279
Reem Ahmed 211001770

ENGL201

Dr.Adham Zidan

October 2023
 Proposal

Students use Enhancement Drugs for nonmedical purposes to enhance their cognitive,

physical, and social skills and they have a high impact on their physical and social behavior.

Although enhancement drugs are popular among Egyptian students, some Egyptian people are

not aware of how these enhancement drugs affect them, and they do not know what kind of

influence they might have on their teenage years. Not only that, but there is also plenty of

research that has been conducted that focused on the negative effects of human enhancement

drugs, but Egypt is still unaware of the negative side effects of these drugs and caffeine to

educate the students about that. Also, most of the studies were in Poland and Europe. So, we

shall know how Egyptian citizens perceive those enhancements according to health and morality

perspectives. In the end, this paper's goal is to answer this question “How do university students

perceive human enhancement morally?” Answering this question will help in understanding how

far these students are aware of these drugs and at which level they realize that enhancement

drugs have different sides of effects alongside using some alternative enhancement to the body in

the natural right way to avoid the negative side effects of drugs and their illegal uses.
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