Tiffany's view point on the negatives of "Designer Babies"
I believe that designing your baby to be a certain way, with a certain height and a certain hair color and eye color is ridiculous.
When you think about it a baby is born with the genetics of their parents because it is something that was created to be a unique individual.
When a parent is able to design their own child that baby is not considered to be unique in their own way because those babies that were "designed" will end up being the "best of the best" (to say) in the world.The important question is "If we design these babies will they be looked at as "superior" to the rest of humanity when they grow up to be adults? They possibly could become superior to the rest of the world as more and more designer babies are "created".
When you think about it a baby is born with the genetics of their parents because it is something that was created to be a unique individual.
When a parent is able to design their own child that baby is not considered to be unique in their own way because those babies that were "designed" will end up being the "best of the best" (to say) in the world.The important question is "If we design these babies will they be looked at as "superior" to the rest of humanity when they grow up to be adults? They possibly could become superior to the rest of the world as more and more designer babies are "created".
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"The Ethics of Designer Babies"
I chose an article that talks about what possibly could be the outcome in the future,
if we start to "design babies" & how it would impact the world. But, not only impacting the
world but also the one who was designed before birth.
When it comes to "Designer Babies", the process is actually brutally selective reproduction where offspring are modified in the very early stages of development, or killed off because they do not have the desired features.
The popularity of such procedures would first develop with those who are wealthy enough to have them. But then the procedures would become more widely available, and people, rather than choosing to have them to avoid terrible genetic disorders would want lighter skin and superficial features that have nothing to do with well being and health.
We simply do not know enough to try to eliminate undesirable superficial features from the human genome based on shallow and irresponsible choices.
The problem of shallow and irresponsible reasons, desires and choices makes them the exact type of slowness in human development that makes Franken-science a grave threat, especially when the science has completely unknown and unknowable consequences.
What if a rejected offspring that did not have the desired blue eyes and blond hair held the one mutation that would prepare mankind for the depletion of the ozone layer by introducing a new form of melanin? What if the desirable offspring eventually turned out to be so defective because the wrong gene was fiddled with that they have lifelong and debilitating medical conditions?
What if society, with too many blond haired and blue eyed people, had to come up with another way for some to rise to the top while others were oppressed?
These are examples of ways in which human society is neither advanced nor prepared enough for such accomplishments as "Designer Babies" to be made available on any kind of wide scale. The only exceptions imaginable would be when medically necessary to eliminate such devastating genetic conditions as Tay Sachs or Sickle Anemia that make it difficult choice for some couples to have children.
Brink: Designer babies [Web]. (2009). Retrieved from http://science.discovery.com/videos/brink-news-designer-babies.html
Genetic engineering - designer babies. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.humansfuture.org/genetic_engineering_designer_babies.php.htm
Huang, Amy (n.d.). Designer babies. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/MorganScience/designer-babies-7387437
Young, Elizabeth. (2010, October 21). The ethics of designer babies. Retrieved from http://www.helium.com/items/1989496-the-ethics-of-designer-babies
if we start to "design babies" & how it would impact the world. But, not only impacting the
world but also the one who was designed before birth.
When it comes to "Designer Babies", the process is actually brutally selective reproduction where offspring are modified in the very early stages of development, or killed off because they do not have the desired features.
The popularity of such procedures would first develop with those who are wealthy enough to have them. But then the procedures would become more widely available, and people, rather than choosing to have them to avoid terrible genetic disorders would want lighter skin and superficial features that have nothing to do with well being and health.
We simply do not know enough to try to eliminate undesirable superficial features from the human genome based on shallow and irresponsible choices.
The problem of shallow and irresponsible reasons, desires and choices makes them the exact type of slowness in human development that makes Franken-science a grave threat, especially when the science has completely unknown and unknowable consequences.
What if a rejected offspring that did not have the desired blue eyes and blond hair held the one mutation that would prepare mankind for the depletion of the ozone layer by introducing a new form of melanin? What if the desirable offspring eventually turned out to be so defective because the wrong gene was fiddled with that they have lifelong and debilitating medical conditions?
What if society, with too many blond haired and blue eyed people, had to come up with another way for some to rise to the top while others were oppressed?
These are examples of ways in which human society is neither advanced nor prepared enough for such accomplishments as "Designer Babies" to be made available on any kind of wide scale. The only exceptions imaginable would be when medically necessary to eliminate such devastating genetic conditions as Tay Sachs or Sickle Anemia that make it difficult choice for some couples to have children.
Brink: Designer babies [Web]. (2009). Retrieved from http://science.discovery.com/videos/brink-news-designer-babies.html
Genetic engineering - designer babies. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.humansfuture.org/genetic_engineering_designer_babies.php.htm
Huang, Amy (n.d.). Designer babies. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/MorganScience/designer-babies-7387437
Young, Elizabeth. (2010, October 21). The ethics of designer babies. Retrieved from http://www.helium.com/items/1989496-the-ethics-of-designer-babies