Pros and Cons of Genetics
Uploaded by sas108 on Nov 13, 2006
The topic of genetics has always been a controversial one. Although it offers the enormous possibility of removing birth defects and genetic illness, it has risks, and some people argue that the risks outweigh the benefits. They say that checking a baby’s genetic code before birth will lead to unhealthy birth selection: resorting to abortions at the slightest possibility of a defect, even if it is not a major one and it is an insignificant one, like slight tendency towards Attention Deficit Disorder. An other main problem with genetic engineering is that since we do not know the outcome of an experiment, we must to try it first, this will lead to many failures, and since we are experimenting with live cells and organisms it will lead to many deaths.
From an employer’s point of view, genetics is very good because they will be able to tell which candidate is best simply by a test; this will lead to discrimination of the lesser people because they are not as advanced as the others. Health insurance agencies will be able to tell if there is a risk in ensuring an individual or not; this will again result in discrimination because the people that need the healthcare the most will not receive it. The scientific and medical institutions will thrive, in attempts to speed-up evolution, trying to create this “perfect” individual, but what is perfection? Is it the ability to compete as an athlete? Or is it one’s artistic capabilities? Or is it one’s academic and intellectual capabilities? This induced unnatural evolution will have to reach a point in which humans can no longer develop further and they will all be alike. Is it at this point that they will have achieved perfection? Then the offspring of these “perfect” individuals will have to be equally perfect, but no better, they will be exactly the same as their parents. The gene pool will no longer exist and then these perfect being will be highly susceptible to new diseases; no matter how good ones immunity system is there is still a chance that it can be over taken by a new virus or bacteria that adapts. Also in the search for perfection, the sense of individualism will be lost; nobody will have any tics or quirk because those are signs of imper-fection, flaws. There will be no need for sport because any team...