Steven+D's+Essay


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Genetic engineering sounds like a wonderful Idea! Being able to eliminate diseases for future generations and completely removing the process of creating life. Having the opportunity to create the perfect human with every trait ever needed to become successful, but should we? Should we really be playing God using our own hands to shape who we are? If we allow ourselves to create what we believe is perfect, then we shall no longer be humans. Instead, of God and the world molding us, we shall decide our own fate that will change us from being unique human beings to cookie cutter organisms too perfect to live a life. Genetic engineering will instead change humans for neither better nor worse. We will no longer be in control of our lives, children will be manufactured in labs for their parent’s sake and genes will be our only method of deciding life. Even if some of the genetics are affecting our life, if it is for the better and is not absolutely grasping the job of god, then just maybe it may be useful in our hands.

I need to get things straight. I feel we have too much power in genetics. I myself do not want humans to control our own environmental adaptation and partake in the occupation of God. But I believe if genetic engineering will eliminate diseases to children who are not even born yet, and will save lives then, who would not want that. I feel that if we can eliminate and change genes to not have Leukemia, type one diabetes, and many other diseases then I approve. Really, if we are able to save lives then why not make that choice. Just think, child defects will be gone, diseases missing, there will clearly happier parents who confirm that their child will not die at birth. The only problem this will add for the people who produce baby coffins will eventually go out of business. That is just a risk we must take for better health in the future. Modern medicine is already attempting to extend lives of everyone on this earth. Science was created by man, and man was created by God so shouldn’t it be that God was the one who created science? I feel if we are saving lives from diseases we have been battling and losing to, then we should allow genetic engineering to one day heal the flaws of our generation. I do believe in God, and if this is a better choice for mankind, if we are able to remove the defects of our genes by lab work, then the action should be taken now.

Although genetics modification is fine for me, if we are dispatching our errors in our DNA, having the ability to modify character traits in a person should be restricted. How can we allow such a thing? If future generations were picked like fresh fruit, their DNA chose their lifestyle, education, occupation, like in the movie GATTACA, how would that be living? In the first place the character traits would be modified by the parent and in the end the child would only be a image which the parents longed to see. Instead of having the process of creating life on this earth, it would be substituted by a lab and pre determined skills?

If we fall into creating a child through genetic engineering then we are ourselves are being modified more and more everyday. Instead of having the genes and looks of their father and mother they would just look like a cut out figure the parents both find suitable. Through the labs we will also lose the process of creating a child’s life, instead the child will be created under a microscope in a lab. Does God really want his children created in a tube instead of the humans he created naturally? That would be absolutely tragic. Saving a soul or life from a harmful disease is one thing, but choosing the life of an organism, specifically selecting skills which the child will flourish in, will in the end destroy every trait we found unique. The parent will just ask for a highly intelligent child, with excellent music skills, high physical traits, and will be able to excel in everything. If this happens in our next generation they will all look, act, and do the same, and those who are different shall be left out, and divided. Do we want that? Would God have wanted that? I don’t think so.

Do I have a problem with GMOs? No I do not. I think genetically modified organisms will help the majority of the people in our nation and our world. GMOs have been in our nation for a while now and it has been aiding farmers through their crops placing different genes to modify their crops to either live through different environments and temperature, or even make it’s own pesticide so it is not eaten by some other insects. If we are able to modify plants and it is still healthy for us to eat them, then why not? We will produce more food, which will make it cheaper and simpler to plant and farm. I for one and my family of course had planted GMOs in my backyard, and after they finished growing, we had no problem eating them. The tomatoes looked like tomatoes, the watermelon, even though different colored, still tasted like a watermelon. On the other hand, I think our nation should be more aware of the genetically modified organisms around our society. Modified foods have been in many products that we already consume, and yet the people are not informed if it is or not. That’s a problem. Genetically modifying meat is also a different story. I have a fear of some of the modification of animals. For example, the fish that would change it’s genes to grow faster. That seems like a wonderful idea, but if it does become loose from its area and attempts to mate, it will not be able to. If that happens, that type of fish would become extinct. There are just some foods we shouldn’t modify. Cloning animals, for a product is an odd action. To eat cloned meat that is also filled with preservatives and chemicals to have a longer shelf life just seems wrong. But there are many exceptions which GMO’s can be used to help our nation and other nations to thrive and be distant from hunger. For example the golden rice is a product that science made. It has the vitamins and nutrienst to aid the staving children in a poverty stricken country. If modified foods can help save and provide life to other countries then why not use it?

Stem cells are just a complicated matter. There have been many battles between ones who believe on saving lives with stem cells, and the ones who believe using a stem cell is murder. Truthfully if it can heal the people who are currently alive living with a disability or discomfort, then stem cells will help. We should proceed with research. What would be better: healing a person currently in pain, or maybe keeping a embryo safe in a freezer and never let it be used. Can you really not sympathize with people who have had accidents and there is research that can help them have a normal life again? Sure embryos may be a alive, but they have not yet grasped what life is. Not in that state, and our nation rather see people suffering, then use a embryo of a unborn child, to find some sort of solution from their medical condition? We must give these people a chance to live a normal life once more! Still, if you are one of the people who believe it is not right to kill unborn embryos then, there is still one more type of research that takes stem cells and clones them for the use of the patient. These are versatile and do not kill embryos. Who can say no to this? From our past reading, if we had this research a little earlier, then maybe Mr. Daniel James would have not committed suicide. Even though there is a lot of debate and difficulty with stem cell research, for the advancement in human life, it should be used.

Each a strict complicated matter. Each side debating from right to wrong, from efficient, to moral, and the giant teter-totter of knowledge. Whatever the solution will be we know we will still continue to advance in some way or another. From altering genetics, creating character traits, genetically modify organisms, and stem cell research, answers and lab work will have a break through and we will continue our path to become better. Some people in our society will decline and look down on our choices for out next generation. Surly modification of genetics, and stem cells already have a bad reputation, and people are disgusted with those upcoming projects. I myself had a uneasy feeling at first, but at this point I feel it may be needed to save our future generations and allowing them to live a better life. Character traits are still something to frown upon as we should not be able to decide the unique features our children will have, that is in the hands of someone else. GMO’s are still getting hassled by a large amount of people, but it has been aiding farms, and the people as it keeps the prices low, and the production always so large. I fear with so many advancements based in our biotech lab, we will be steping over a line in which we are god. Some say we haven’t just yet, some say we are on it, and some say we have already past it. Now we wait for the future. the future.