One day genetic technology may be able to give parents the opportunity to genetically engineer their babies, should we let this happen? That is the question we should be asking ourselves. Having the opportunity to do this could create many different possibilities for the human race by making the “perfect" child. It could also create many different problems that we have never had to deal with before we started doing this. Genetic engineering has already started with animals and crops, there are downsides to genetic engineering, but there are also upsides. Animals and crops have already started being genetically engineered, there have been good and bad experiences with it. When an animal or crop did not turn out the way they wanted it to they
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So many things could be done with people that can live as long as possible, that are intelligent, you could make medical breakthroughs, or discover something new about math, the possibilities are endless when you have a large group of people that are intelligent, good looking, healthy in every way, or are simply perfect. The whole idea behind genetically engineering our offspring is to make them perfect so things that are not happening now can happen then. Gattaca is a movie about genetic engineering and a man that is considered an “in-valid” so he is exiled from society and can only have one job, working as a janitor and only being able to talk to other in-valids, but this man was different he was not okay with just being in-valid he wanted to travel to space and that is not something in-valids ever got to do. He came up with a plan to travel into space he starting using a valids identity, this valid was no longer able to walk and he was in a wheelchair but only three people knew about it. The valid, Jerome Morrow, was perfectly genetically engineered to live a long and healthy life but he did something that got him into a bit of trouble, to put him in a wheelchair. The moral of the story was that even if you are “in-valid” if you want something bad enough you'll get
So many things could be done with people that can live as long as possible, that are intelligent, you could make medical breakthroughs, or discover something new about math, the possibilities are endless when you have a large group of people that are intelligent, good looking, healthy in every way, or are simply perfect. The whole idea behind genetically engineering our offspring is to make them perfect so things that are not happening now can happen then. Gattaca is a movie about genetic engineering and a man that is considered an “in-valid” so he is exiled from society and can only have one job, working as a janitor and only being able to talk to other in-valids, but this man was different he was not okay with just being in-valid he wanted to travel to space and that is not something in-valids ever got to do. He came up with a plan to travel into space he starting using a valids identity, this valid was no longer able to walk and he was in a wheelchair but only three people knew about it. The valid, Jerome Morrow, was perfectly genetically engineered to live a long and healthy life but he did something that got him into a bit of trouble, to put him in a wheelchair. The moral of the story was that even if you are “in-valid” if you want something bad enough you'll get