2011年10月3日月曜日
CA Blogging Assignment 3
The modifications to the human genome currently being studied and experimented with will eventually change human nature in the following ways.Modifications could make people able to make their own babies as ideal as possible. This could be seen as a blaspheme against humans "personality", nature, and god, in some religion. However, there are several reasons that modification could not be thought as blaspheme without any objections. First of all, ethnics varies in age, country, religion and other aspects. Ethnics is a strong reason, but it seems that it could not be the only reason. Second, the idea of modification comes from bacterium. Blaspheme against nature is not only too emotional, but also it does not have consistency. Finally, modification could help people from disease. Hereditary diseases, like Huntington's disease could be solved. It is true, that modification could be a dangerous technology, but with careful thoughts and rules, there are many possibility to save many people. Technology itself is neither black nor white, it depends on the people.
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The point you make is very insightful. You're right. What is ethical is not engraved in stone, it changes with the evolutionary changes in thinking and societal values. As well, the advantages in overcoming truly devastating illnesses and developmental problems are too great to pass up and will ensure that humans will pursue gene therapy aggressively.
返信削除I agree with your viewpoint. It very much depends on what people do with technology and what one's ethical viewpoint is, whether or not a given form of technology can be called evil or good. When it comes to such judgments, can we say there are absolutes? Most likely not.
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