Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
"Reducing the number of revolutions per minutes," Mr. Foster explained. "The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par." Again he rubbed his hands.
"But why do you want to keep the embryo below par?" asked an ingenuous student.
"Ass!" said the Director, breaking a long silence. "Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon hereidity?" (13)
In the society of Brave New World people were automatically born into a social class. The class that you are born into is decided by the Director's decision. Depending on what he decides to do to the embryo, that's what the individual will be born into. In this case, the Director decides to limit the oxygen, that way the babies are born into the class of retardation, which is the lowest status in the caste. It's unfair how their lives are left to be decided by one person, and this one person has total control of the future generations. It should've been left up to be decided by fate or by chance. But in their community, they believe in science over religion. There is no religion, morals, or values in their community. The people of the community are so drawn into science that they don't see what is wrong with making unfortunate babies. They allow for it to happen without stopping it. It's like communism, where one person takes control and the rest follows the orders. It's unfair for one's future to be decided by a crazy scientist.
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