“The Enhanced and the Unenhanced” by Gregory Stock was one of the most interesting essay that we have read yet. It made me think about how advanced we are becoming. One hundred years ago we did not think that it would be possible to get on a phone that wasn’t connected to the wall with a cord and call anybody that we wanted or that we could just get on a computer and type a report or even get on the internet with it. And now days these things are done without even thinking about it. In this essay we are so advanced that people who want to have children have an option of genetically modifying them to how the parents want them to look or act. We can screen the embryos to see if they have any signs of diseases or if they will become a boy or girl. To be able to do this is just crazy to think.
In my opinion I don’t think that I would want to have my kids genetically modified. I think that the way children are raised is a way to make them act a curtain way when they are older through gaining experience in life. If we just modify them to be perfect then they wouldn’t need to learn through experience. I think that they way kids turn out is the way mother nature wanted them to be and if we decide to manipulate them then something might turn out wrong with them. If everybody decided to have their kids this way then it could take away the idea of being unique. Everyone would want their kids to be smart and healthy and if everyone was good at everything then they would all be the same with all the same talents.
If we had the technology to do this to our children some of the pluses that could come from it would be that we could screen out all of the possible sources of diseases. If we could see a possible source of a disease and fix it before the embryo started to grow. The only reason I would ever want my kids to be genetically modified would be because of this. It would make me not have to worry if my kids would be unhealthy. Another good thing that could come of this would be if a couple was unable to have kids because of health issues then they could get their child made in this lab or however they do it and the kid would be healthy.
In conclusion I liked this read but I don’t entirely agree with what Gregory Stock was saying will and should happen. I think that if we all were good at everything from the beginning then we wouldn’t have anything unique about ourselves. But I do see how modifying our children could be a good idea to make them healthy but other than that I wouldn’t want to mess the gift that god would be giving us.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/03/the-worlds-fi-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Stock
In my opinion I don’t think that I would want to have my kids genetically modified. I think that the way children are raised is a way to make them act a curtain way when they are older through gaining experience in life. If we just modify them to be perfect then they wouldn’t need to learn through experience. I think that they way kids turn out is the way mother nature wanted them to be and if we decide to manipulate them then something might turn out wrong with them. If everybody decided to have their kids this way then it could take away the idea of being unique. Everyone would want their kids to be smart and healthy and if everyone was good at everything then they would all be the same with all the same talents.
If we had the technology to do this to our children some of the pluses that could come from it would be that we could screen out all of the possible sources of diseases. If we could see a possible source of a disease and fix it before the embryo started to grow. The only reason I would ever want my kids to be genetically modified would be because of this. It would make me not have to worry if my kids would be unhealthy. Another good thing that could come of this would be if a couple was unable to have kids because of health issues then they could get their child made in this lab or however they do it and the kid would be healthy.
In conclusion I liked this read but I don’t entirely agree with what Gregory Stock was saying will and should happen. I think that if we all were good at everything from the beginning then we wouldn’t have anything unique about ourselves. But I do see how modifying our children could be a good idea to make them healthy but other than that I wouldn’t want to mess the gift that god would be giving us.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/03/the-worlds-fi-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Stock
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