Friday, March 7, 2008

My View on Genetic Engineering

Science has made many advances in human evolution. We went from every time we get pregnant you have to have the baby to you can get an abortion. With Genetic Engineering woman to might not genetically be able to have a baby can now have one. Also scientists have learned how to alter food. Science evolves our world and helps make it better but with all these advances for good come many bad things
Genetic Engineering isn’t just for people trying to have babies. Sciences alter the DNA in foods like tomatoes to help them stay red longer and to be plumper and sweeter. You don’t often hear about people being mad about the delicious tomatoes at the supermarket. They also took the “anti freezing” gene from flounder and implanted it into the tomatoes to make their season longer. For woman who dream about having children when they get older and then when that dream is crushed because for some reason you can’t have children you might end up feeling inadequate. Now with Genetic Engineering you can have a fertilized egg planted into your womb and you can experience the ups and downs of having a human person grow inside you. I think there is a fine line between genetic engineering for good and for bad.
When I hear Genetic Engineering I think of babies and I think of Hitler. I know that it a harsh combination but aren’t you doing the same thing Hitler was, your not killing per say but you are engineering the perfect child. Many parents say I will love my child no matter what they look like. But the fact of the matter is if a parent could protect their child from a disease or retardation they probably would. Most people view the perfect child different; some love sports while others are artists, some want blonds and some want brunettes, I feel that people should love their child for who they are and become rather than change them in the womb and not give them the chance to essentially be themselves.
Most people do not think of the long term consequences’ and just jump into things. You might find out or even years from now that you could end up with some weird growth from eating the food that was Genetically Engineered or even the children born from Genetic Engineering could get some disease worse than cancer. Like I said earlier about the woman you can’t have children I think they are using this advance in science for good, but people who can have children without altering themselves are using it and that should be where we draw the line. People who can have children should not change who that child should be, if they have a disease or any kind of retardation they are supposed to have it and you shouldn’t kill that baby because of that.
The world is evolving fast and I think if we keep going to far with Genetic Engineering than we may end up one day in the future with a world like The Brave New World. It is scary to think about not having a mother or father, or having to sleep around to be normal, but I also think a place with no disease it bad. People need to die in order for people to live. If no one died than the world as we know it would dissolve rather quickly and we would have no need for Genetic Engineering. There are good parts to Genetic Engineering and for that I think that we need it for society today but I also think that we need to pace ourselves on how much and for what we use genetic engineering for.