You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Designer Babies or Create your own child, cure genetic diseases, Cancer...the future? It is close, too close...
just imagine how much more disappointed the parents who spent stupid amount of money genetically engineering their kid to be the smartest kid in the class when he/she decides he/she wants to be in a rock band instead of being president.
Joking aside though i hate that this will effectively turn children into a product. The amount of parents who already feel some sense of ownership over their children's lives is already horrific.
The more beneficial use of it is in ridding children of heritable diseases. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to prevent a child from getting Huntington's disease? Or how about correcting the error that results in xerodurma pigmentosum, so the child could live a normal life and play outside in the sun.
I don't have any issues with it for medical purposes at all. the "build a baby" aspect of it though is a very different story.
These are situations which arise for a lot of the biotech endeavors, there are aspects of them which are universally agreeable as wonderful. However these are powerful technologies and with that comes along the ability to do morally questionable things. A lot of discussions will need to be had in the future to address all of these potential concerns. However from the perspective of someone doing work on these sorts of enzymes, the potential for good is there and it's what is driving a lot of researchers (I'm sure there are some in it for the glory or something too, but most of us at the bench just want to do something that will help others).