It may be harmful to the individual, depriving the individual of individuality and choice. What about collectives and races?
This film makes us think about this question.
The male lead played by the new 007 actor persuaded the female lead played by Nicole Kidman: "It would be great if people could live in a world of perfect harmony like a tree (in Colorado)." It's
a pity that this kind of Perfect harmony is an illusion.
There are also such "cultural viruses" in the real world. It's not made of genes, it's made of "meme". The price of being infected with it and "getting better" is the deprivation of freedom of thought and autonomous choice.
The choice to be infected or not to be infected may depend on how much crisis humanity is facing together. The film is a projection of the real world: the Iraq war, the oil crisis, some countries do not respect human rights, nuclear proliferation... In this situation, is it worth sacrificing the freedom of all human beings? Or, in the face of such a crisis, can those freedoms we cherish be sacrificed?
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