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Genetics- Just because we can does that me we should?
So this is kinda a heavy topic but it is philosophy and it makes you really learn about your beliefs. Recently in school we were talking about Genetics and the Genom project. so i wanted to know how people thought about technolagy. if we could egineer a child do we have the right to? if we could screen our children before they are born for a disease should we have the right to make a dissition wheather or not to abort the feteus? if we found genes that inhansed human ability should we be able to place that gene in unborn childs DNA. What about geneticly modified food? whats your opinion. PLease be open minded and us true opion, no childish name calling ( not that anyone on teenville would )no ones opion is wrong just diffent.
umm....i don't really think that should be a choice. cause let's say that you did screen your child and found out it that it would be autistic...and to abort would be to say that you would love that child less or you don't wanna deal with the stress and it's just a "burden". i don't think there's a problem with screening a child before it's born, but in the sense that you would know if there was a problem and how to better prepare to take care of it than to rather just find out about it after birth.
This is a very interesting topic, and actually spans many things.
I personally have two views on this. The first is that God (since i'm religious) created us in this esy, so we shouldn't change our design. We also shouldn't use technology to find out what type of kid we have, and what illness it has, cause each person is unique and we should not terminate peoples life because of it.
However, another part of me say that using technology to fix illnesses and give people the chance of a "normal" life is ok, but enhancing humans is still wrong. I also think that pre-birth scanning can be used to help children with illnesses as soon as possible and stuff.
i think anything that would help human race is a good thing. In this cause the ability to cure a unborn baby is better than just killing it (abortion). So i welcome the idea.
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This is a very interesting topic, and actually spans many things.
However, another part of me say that using technology to fix illnesses and give people the chance of a "normal" life is ok, but enhancing humans is still wrong.
i totally agree, technology will eventually get as advanced to do those types of things, and changing human life to have a better life, (long term gain) is great. but for enhancing people to perform better in anything, being smarter or whatever is utterly wrong. that isnt the only thing, in fact im watching jake 2.0 and the use of nano-technology will perhaps have a hand in this. though it would be really cool to have the power to use on good things, if it get in the hands of the wrong people
but by using this technology at some point everyone will be using it. and to totally wipe out affliction is to totally wipe out any understanding of knowing something different. we need that indifference so if somethin doesn't go quite right we still would know how to treat that person and still accept them into society
WOW all really great points.
I also have to points of view on the subject.
I am religous(dauhlol) so i think terminating an unborn child before they have a chance at servival is inmoral. If they are carring a genetic inomaly that could potential cause there standard of live to be less then adiquit does not mean that that child will infact have the genetic illness. One may be carring the gene sequense for a diease doesnt mean that disease will manifest it self. But i do beleve genetic scanning is good knowing if a chicl has the potential for a genetic illness can help the parents perpare for it, do reseach and explore there options.
THen again the "stress" of have a handycapt child should not be overlooked. 78% of mothers who have diabled children are left by there husbands. Leaving the mother to raise the child alone, they also have to care for the child finaicaly. Medical bills skyrocket. Even in Canada with meidacare and free health care parents still have to fight finacial. one parent has to be with the child 24 7, endless visits to the hospital, surgary after surgary. And most genetic diorders only worsen with time. A parent or gaurdain doesnt have to care for there child for 20 years but the rest of there life. SOme people would say so what to finatail but then what about emotional. See someone they love struggle for life, and in some cases in constant pain. What kind of life is that. Can you even call it living. The parents of these children offenten slip in to deep depression. I mean if i found out without a bit of a bought that i had to do it i dont think i could. Someone in my community who was an only parent had a child with a illness of this nature she enend up in a severe depression, and killed her own child then attempted suicide.
I think that we are good enough as we are. I mean, inteligent human beings have existed for such a long time without even knowing what genetics was.
Still i agree with what most of you say. If we are able to help some of the less lucky amongst us by using our advanced medicine, it is immoral not to do it.
Just depends on the case, no earth populated by supermen/women for me.
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hmm.. very interesting topic... hmmm. what i think... ermm.. i don't really buy the idea of human genome... if people can 'engineer' what their sone would be... i think that it would take away the excitement pregnancy brings... anyways... what i wuld liek to say is that its unethical, perhaps.. even more for very religious people... some may argue that its against the will of the lord... for me it kinda fits in, morally speaking its not right because we are basically designing a baby.. ermm which i think is weird... but anyways...
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Good point.
I think that if the technology ids out there people are going to use it no matter what.
i dont think that everyone whould start to have genticaly made babies, everone has there own moral beleifs right, i think that the creation of life shouldnt be artificail created. i mean what about that child what kind of life whould you have if you were genetical engineared no parents, no past......i wouldn't want to be that way no matter how perfect i was. and what is perfect anyway everyone? has a differnt view on that to like calturaly.
Re: Genetics- Just because we can does that me we should?
Those are actually choices more over Genetics. Choices can effect Genetics but if I didn't know better this wouldn't really relate to teachnology, like you said.
Re: Genetics- Just because we can does that me we should?
This really is quite different from normal genetics. It's an integration of technology and how it relates to genetics, as well as integration as to what should be considered the normative.
In my opinion, genetics on this level is merely another form of natural selection. As a moral skeptic, I'm not in a prime position to speak of the moral ramifications of genetics. Personally, I believe genetic enhancements (atleast the study of genetic enhancements) is something that we should integrate into the mainstream with all haste.
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