Genetic Engineering Controversy

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On Tuesday, our small groups discussed the ethical dilemmas that revolved around genetic engineering and whether or not it should be banned. This topic fascinated me since it is a new emerging technology that could greatly affect the human population. Although this technology is only in its infancy, it has lots of controversy. When I first thought about this topic I wondered why anyone wouldn’t want this technology to advance: there is the potential for unprecedented positive effects like eliminating diseases such as cancer, hiv, and alzheimer's. Although there is potential for greatness, a lot of people don’t like the fact that humans are playing “God” or that it could lead to people abusing the powers of genetical engineering. There is some skepticism towards this topic, but benefits in my opinion outweigh the negatives and it seems illogical to suppress this technology. Creating a future where painful, deadly, and infectious diseases are eradicated seems ideal. With the advances of …show more content…
If no restrictions were made on this topic I think super armies would be created and richer folk would have babies that looked ideal and were immune to almost everything. This likely won’t happen and I think that governments around the world will have to come an agreement to regulate this technology. They will have to put regulations on it in order to not let this technolgy get out of hand. I think they should definitely limit its personal use until it is available to everyone at a moderate price. If governments don’t step in I think it people would abuse its powers and they would likely create a divide in the world: it would be a world where modified rich people are on top and unmodified poor people are on the bottom of the social and economic totem pole. That would be worst case scenario, and I think our world wouldn't get to that point since there would be too many protests against genetic

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