"'That's because we don't allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases" (Huxely 131).
The people of the Brave New World do not experience their lives to the full potential. Since, their culture is conditioned and controlled to the point where even the sight of a person in their middle ages is monstrous. This devalues the meaning of having a life because going through life is to go through hardships, and in this society any hard ships are brought to nothing because they are either conditioned to avoid it or they are controlled to where their physical appearance does not alter. Furthermore, their way of coping, or avoiding, their problems is to take drugs, soma, which has no effect except making them weak willed people who need to rely on this drug which has no physical side effects. However, there is a positive side to their ability to preserve people into keeping a physique with no defects. This positive is that there are many diseases no one no longer has to worry about that come with old age. For example, they would not need to worry about getting Alzheimer's, or arthritis, or erectile dysfunction, as well as many other diseases.
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