Clan of the One-Breasted Women

I would have to say that this was probably my favorite reading that we have done so far. Not only was it fairly easy to read, but it was something that I had some interest in. I felt that it was smart for it to be written in first person because it gave me a sense of what was going on, as well as the social and family implications. It has a lot of relation to what we do in this class because we are being taught to not blindly follow authority, but to question our government constantly to make sure that what is going on is what is best for everybody in the country. When they said that the area around the testing sites was "virtually uninhabited", they were basically diminishing the lives of those few people that lived there. To the government at the time, the live of those people were less important than keeping our country safe and the potential safety that those bombs provided for the rest of our country. This is where we have to evaluate the value of individuals lives. Is it ok to sacrifice the safety of a few to provide safety for many? Who has the right to choose whose life has more value than another? I think the right thing to do would be to relocate these people or provide some sort of protection, rather than arrogantly say that there was no health risks involved.