My Position On Genetic Enhancement

My position on genetic enhancement is similar to Sandel’s point of view in the sense that I agree we shouldn’t do it just because we want to “master humanity” as he calls it. I believe that we should do it to help others in a medical sense. What I mean when I say to help people medically should be defined as genetic enhancement is of course a medical procedure. When I say medically I mean only to help the person to be a normal human so no laser eyes or shape shifting or anything equally ridiculous. I should also define what it is to be a “normal” human as well. A normal human to me is one that has a body that functions as intended meaning that all limbs work, all senses work, and your are mentally well in both terms or IQ and sanity. There is some argument to be had in all of those categories and I will cover them after I get to my next point, money. I believe that the medical procedures shouldn’t be free or even cheap until it is possible to do so. What I mean to say is that we should not withhold these hypothetical procedures until it is affordable, to do …show more content…
Just because most of the middle and all of the lower class people in terms of USD can’t afford to get it doesn’t mean that we should withhold it entirely. It would be cruel to the people that can and by allowing the procedure to exist even when expensive there will undoubtedly be advancements to it that make it more affordable and accessible to people around the world. You can kind of see it today with cancer and other diseases of the like, sure they aren’t getting the super duper top of the line new treatments but it is certainly better than nothing being done at all. So in short doing this even while expensive may lead to advancements that make it cheaper to do but we shouldn’t let the accessibility of something stop it from