Gene Doping In Spiderman

In the movie Spiderman, the protagonist Peter Parker is a geeky, introverted, intelligent high school boy who gets bit by an engineered spider during a field trip to a lab. After the biting of the spider, Parker turns into a stronger and confident person who possesses spider-like qualities. Throughout the movie it is clear Spiderman’s legacy is that he wishes to protect civilians, he can be considered as a superhero vigilante or be considered as a criminal. Parker develops super speed, strength, mental acumen, agility, increased control over the five senses after being bit by the spider. The rationale that is being investigated is whether bioengineering humans can produce a new stronger, faster, intelligent, human race and what methods can …show more content…
Athletes for example can change their physique by gene doping, some athletes use this method to get stronger quicker. Gene doping is the younger sibling of gene editing, it does not focus on the removal and prevention of the disease, it focuses on furthering the athlete to repair the muscles quickly. The method of gene doping is that scientists inject the athletes with the modified genes, this can temporarily better them but the risks of this are massive, it can trigger an immune reaction or even jump start cancer. The risks with gene doping are equally bad as gene editing, overall this method is slightly less risky than gene editing as the effects are temporary, but the long term risks are equally harming. Thus, gene editing and gene doping cannot create a super human like …show more content…
But to create a super human and using science technology to manipulate a human’s natural qualities has many negative aspects. The first disadvantage is that humans will lose their individuality when creating a super human, everyone will be exactly the same. Next, it is unethical to subject animals and embryos to undergo testing when no one can tell whether they are suffering or not. There are moral aspects that need to be addressed, if this research were to be continued there must be a board regulating every step. The society will benefit from preventing harmful diseases but the health risks the research poses is huge. There has to be more research done by bioethicists and geneticists to determine if this is possible in the near future. CRISPR-Cas9 promises to remove the genes for obesity, Alzheimer’s but what is being neglected to mention is the process of how this research is obtained and the societal impacts. Creating super humans will lead to uniformity and lack of individuality within the society, everyone would aim to look a certain way, physically be a certain standard, have the same intelligence as others. It would be a tamer version of Brave New World, the people that cannot afford to have their genes edited would be treated as scum. The endless possibilities of scientific research invoke curiosity but it fails to project