genetically engineering chidren?

[Scrubs]

Basically, changing your kid to make it a really good athlete or really smart.
This would only work, if the parents had these traits, but it would boost them up a little bit. Thoughts on it?

[Souleater]

the thought that a child can be genetically engineered. the genes of a fetus can be edited in order for the genes to be more prominent. it was experimented on in many countries on numerous people.

Hitler performed this on many of the jews he had captured. the same was performed by the Isites in Italy during the 2nd world war.

genetic engineering also holds "moral complications." basically since the religious zealots in the world wont allow that to be studied, we will never really know.

[CamKillaH]

I mean it's horrible and weird.. but in a way it would be a way to enhance the already known selective breeding and survival of the fittest. I mean I guess it would be okay to do simple mutations like hair color and eye color but altering what kind of child you're gonna have regarding it's intelligence and physical behaviors is wrong D:

[sighkick]

I genetically engineer my children..,I make them read books and eat healthy so they'll be Harvard bound...i dont have kids really but if i did i would make make them eat right and woudnt let them be idiots..genetical engineering could workout in Americas favor one day

[C0FFINCASE]

Genetically engendering people is a poor choice not only due to moral complications but because you will end up at some point with a standardized person being made. Destroys the person, cookie cutter. The whole point of reproduction is the randomized combination of genetic materiel. You need the randomization for the human race to prosper and continue. Ultimately you're looking at having your genes replaced with other person's to get them to be the way you want them too.
On top of that who are you to decide what a person should be? If anyone gets to decide who they will be it ought to be that person.
Reproduction is meant to continue you, allow your genes to be carried on into the future. You alter them then your genes aren't being continuing on.
Another issue is very quickly people will try to create super people/person. We end up with either one person so much smarter and more powerful than everyone else we end up subjugated or you end up with more than on super person which results in super race who claims to be superior to the rest of us which leads to about a hundred different things: slavery,destruction, genocide, ect.

[Scrubs]

@C0FFINCASE- Nice points except. 1. The fetus could only be altered to the best of the parents genetics. For example Jenna and Liam plan to have a baby. They can alter it by trying to make the fetus smarter than they expect it to be naturally. However, will the person grow up to have a brain like Einstein? No, because unless Liam and Jenna are as smart as Einstein or Einstein's parents, the fetus will just be the best, between them.

@ Others- What about using it for good. If your kid is expected to be born with a disease and in order to avoid that you alter the child. Then is it ok?

[Slash]

It's very dangerous, and to top it off it is just wrong. I do not want my parents deciding my fate for me. If I ever found out that I was good at what I do because my mother and father made me that way I would be so pissed at them...Because then I will never know who I really am. My whole life could be a lie.

[Souleater]

It's very dangerous, and to top it off it is just wrong. I do not want my parents deciding my fate for me. If I ever found out that I was good at what I do because my mother and father made me that way I would be so pissed at them...Because then I will never know who I really am. My whole life could be a lie.

That is not how genes work. That is total control. Genes control what you lookd like and possibly even your personality, not what you are good at and what you suck at.

Sounds like you don't understand genetics.

this. its clear.

[C0FFINCASE]

@C0FFINCASE- Nice points except. 1. The fetus could only be altered to the best of the parents genetics. For example Jenna and Liam plan to have a baby. They can alter it by trying to make the fetus smarter than they expect it to be naturally. However, will the person grow up to have a brain like Einstein? No, because unless Liam and Jenna are as smart as Einstein or Einstein's parents, the fetus will just be the best, between them.

Why are you going to limit yourself to parents' genetic material? If you're going to go screw with genes why not just switching out genes in the gametes? Why wouldn't people start pulling out genetic material out of famous people start switching out their undesired genes and replacing them desirable ones from other people?

[Smithno13]

That is not how genes work. That is total control. Genes control what you lookd like and possibly even your personality, not what you are good at and what you suck at.



this. its clear.

The genetic engineering currently within our reach dont control much, like you state, but in the future you could technically create the "perfect" child. I wrote a whole report on this, wish I could find it.

[Souleater]

The genetic engineering currently within our reach dont control much, like you state, but in the future you could technically create the "perfect" child. I wrote a whole report on this, wish I could find it.

the theory of genetics is too advanced for a school paper. with over 3 billion pairs of chromosomes and the three amino acids, adnine, thynine, guanine, with hundreds of billions of ocmbinations of those amino acids, there is no way to change or alter just one. there is no possibility to completely alter the genes of a human. any change to such a total degree would uncreate the being itself.

the altered genetics would create mutations to any being that is being so heavily changed. the being would be another being altogether. it would still be a human, but it would still be so greatly mutated it would be something else altogether.

[Smithno13]

It wasnt on the theory of genetics, it was on the morals of doing such a thing. Of course, I had to have a background in the genetics of it - Thats what I have my sister for. Double majored in genetic engineering and microbiology at Texas A&M and went on to Johns Hopkins for graduate school on a full ride.