10.03.2011
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. Humans would be able to modify genes as they wish which leads them to start changing themselves genetically. For example, people who suffer from a certain genetical illness would change their genes to the ones that do not cause illness. People would be "designing" themselves. Young people would start thinking about "designing" a baby so that the baby would live a life without any possibility of getting genetic illness. This might be a good idea because every parent do wish their children to be healthy however at the same time disabled or sick people might be discriminated because they would be even less handicapped people with genetic engineering.
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The issues of discrimination against those who are for whatever reason unable to take advantage of such new technologies is a problem that will certainly occur. We can see it coming in the future even now. Your thinking is prophetic.
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