According to Lee Silver, a professor at Princeton University, “ A has 1 million locations in their DNA. Even if you are a healthy adult, 100 of these genes can cause deadly disease.” (Parry, 2013) After watching the movie GATTACA I realize that some parents want to select their child’s genetic makeup. Some may think that it is a great idea because they can give their child the tools they need to be successful in their lifetime. Although, parents should not be able to select traits for their children because the child could not turn out to be as good as promised and the breeding process in humans should be natural not predetermined. The first reason for why parents shouldn’t be able to select traits for children is because their child could not turn out the way it was
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Natural selection is what makes organisms different and what makes them able to adapt to their environment. Natural selection occurs during natural sexual reproduction. If your child is born with brown hair rather than blonde hair, they have no less of a chance to be successful than someone with blonde hair. According to the FDA on Livescience.com, “Scientists could clone Michael Jordan, but Michael 2 might want to be an accountant.” (Ghose, 2014) Once the parents realize that they have control of their child’s outcome and abilities in life, they will push their child to do the things that he/she is cut out to do even if they don’t genuinely want to do that. Scientists and researchers are coming up with this idea to make people’s children ethically better. (Alleyne, 2012) Even if the child is going to grow up to harm themselves or others around them, then that’s the way it was suppose to be. Life isn’t ever going to be perfect or fair so why try to create something to be perfect. Having something unnaturally perfect in a naturally imperfect world sounds like it can cause
Natural selection is what makes organisms different and what makes them able to adapt to their environment. Natural selection occurs during natural sexual reproduction. If your child is born with brown hair rather than blonde hair, they have no less of a chance to be successful than someone with blonde hair. According to the FDA on Livescience.com, “Scientists could clone Michael Jordan, but Michael 2 might want to be an accountant.” (Ghose, 2014) Once the parents realize that they have control of their child’s outcome and abilities in life, they will push their child to do the things that he/she is cut out to do even if they don’t genuinely want to do that. Scientists and researchers are coming up with this idea to make people’s children ethically better. (Alleyne, 2012) Even if the child is going to grow up to harm themselves or others around them, then that’s the way it was suppose to be. Life isn’t ever going to be perfect or fair so why try to create something to be perfect. Having something unnaturally perfect in a naturally imperfect world sounds like it can cause