2006-08-26 16:02:42 · 3 answers · asked by mirothana06 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
depends if gene therapy will be affordable. if not then the rich will live longer than everyone else. if it's affordable then probably the health care industry will lose money.
2006-08-27 05:36:43 · answer #1 · answered by sugar_lilly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People could choose to get rid of bad genes, things that cause hereditary diseases, or have the perfect child with all the looks the parents want (and when the child is a teen, it gets mad at its parents and plastic surgery is on the rise once more)
It would also be able to change the DNA of future humans so they can all have a natural immunity to AIDS and other viruses by copying the genes of the people that have the immunity today.
But the thing is, natural selection is the most natural (duh) thing in the world and when you start to sythesize that, you get real ethical issues that'd be even bigger than human cloning and stuff of that sort
2006-08-30 14:58:08 · answer #2 · answered by ~*Prodigious*~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever read "Brave New World" by Huxley? Sometimes I wonder if we aren't really really heading in that direction. But what happens if we decide we only want "Alphas?" What happens if we don't have the "Betas" and so on?
2006-08-29 12:28:34 · answer #3 · answered by Tom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋