The most harmful inventions We got very interesting topic on previous lesson. The topic was “If you could un-invent something, what would it be? Discuss why, potential repercussions, or a possible alternative.” I read many articles about most dangerous scientific and another inventions of all time. There were written about atomic bomb, automatic rifle, freon, sarin gas, thalidomide, antibiotics etc.. Really I realize that guns bring death to the people, but in some cases we can use guns for our protection. I think that people just use guns in a wrong way, and it makes weapon dangerous. In some cases the weapon may not be harmful it depends on how it is used, sometimes people own weapons, like policemen, to maintain order and protect civilians from bandits, in such cases, I believe that the weapons could be used for good purposes. Freon is also very toxic for people and dangerous for ozone layer. But if Midge Tomas had not invented Freon, we could not use fridge and air conditioning now. I think it was created with good intentions but subsequently it became harmful and dangerous for people. Some authors think that antibiotics can be harmful for human body. But If antibiotics hadn’t been invented we couldn’t fight with a lot of different diseases. It must be that they have some side effect, but if we use them wisely, they will be safe for us. Another authors add to their list of dangerous inventions even cars. To my surprise, according to statistics, transport takes the first place in the atmospheric pollution. But If the cars hadn’t been invented we could hardly imagine our nowadays without cars. I was thinking about a lot of harmful inventions that were invented. In my opinion the most meaningless inventions are alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. Really I could not find any advantages or excuses for this inventions. If all this things hadn’t been invented many people would be more healthy and happier now. In my opinion they are the most useless things in the world. The result of the impact of these bad habits is reduced life expectancy and increased mortality. Also addicted people often born unhealthy and weak babies. I know that there are some kind of drugs which also are using in medicine but I mean the other sort of drugs that is useless. The alcohol can be a reason for family breakdown or some other conflicts between people. So my conclusion is the most useless and harmful inventions are alcohol, cigarettes and drugs.