Reflection About Westworld

As a child of first generation immigrants, I have often taken for granted the indulgences that my parents would have never dreamed of. My whines to have the latest of everything that my friends had were reluctantly met by my parents at first; however, this was eventually changed into pure tolerance with little shame from my parents. I am now able to look back at these luxuries that I was given and laugh, simply because my parents adapted to my superficial needs. A few years later and I can reflect my life to the plot of the picturesque show Westworld. It is a story where technology meets the Wild West to create a theme park occupied by mechanical "hosts", all of whom are at the dispense of high paying human "guests".
While the idea of a park like Westworld can sound frightening and a case of controversy for some, it is not a foreign concept considering similar ideas have been conceptualized before. Think of Blade Runner and Jurassic Park. It is our way of envisioning how our world would be altered, possibly for the better, if we had access to an extravagant unknown. This is because as humans, we all have desire. These pleasures have evolved to be those that others share, thus making them the norm. We may shame the luxuries of those that are living more affluently, but in reality, we want exactly what they have.

It 's a world where every desire can be met by spending money. It is where the guests in the show truly expose their desires, even the ones they never knew they had. It is the first time in a person 's life where they are able to act without boundary. Essentially, this poses the question of, "if a place like Westworld existed on Earth today, how would we react to it?". Humans are placed in a scenario where ethics may be questioned - but since it is robot hosts in question - would it be morally wrong to bring