Would you support genetic meniplation?

Question

Would you support genetic meniplation technology? If so how do you feel about it and if not why do you feel that way?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

First, it's manipulation....

Second, no, I would not support it.

We already have genetically modified food that most people don't know about, and have you noticed how many children are being born today that have missing chromosomes and birth defects? This is caused by the 'genetic manipulation' of every day foods. Chicken is one of the biggest foods in the United States and in order to keep up, chicken farmers feed growth hormones to their animals and steroids to increase the size of their muscles. What is this doing to our children, born and unborn? Cancers, heart disease, diabetes, obesity are all factors that can be attributed to 'genetic manipulation'. That's just food....

Can you imagine if they tried to genetically modify a human being?

What if they tried to genetically modify two species that are in no way related and produced a new breed? Oh, wait, they've done that too!

Science and science fiction might be nice to THINK about but to act on some of the 'technology' we've discovered or engineered is dangerous...we are NOT GOD!

-Em

Answer 3

Say you were born in 1801. You have an appendicitis attack. A local surgeon (please note, this was usually not a doctor, but lower than a doctor) will need to cut you open.

You have no anesthesia. We are also missing a key component, it is called aseptic technique.

See, back then people didn't know about bacteria, so they didn't sterilize anything.

Brilliant, dedicated scientists such as Joseph Lister were refuted by society for their discoveries. In fact, bacteria were discovered centuries earlier by a Dutch man looking at his own sperm through a home-made microscope.

When Penicillin was found there were scads of people refusing to take the medicine! Most beliefs of illness were related to God punishing humanity. If we prevented illness we were interfering with God's own WILL. Sound familiar??!

Now, we are like them. We think if we continue to seek new science we are somehow interfering with God's will. We question, to the extreme, how such technology will be used for deviant purposes.....when in reality, now listen carefully....in reality, we will adopt healthy practices just like we have in the past. We have ethics committees, and we are not going to let science run amok.

Answer 4

are we talking humans? no let mankind evolve over time. no person(s) should control the out comes of others genetic information. still there should be freedom to study and cure some diseases, and if this involve genetic manipulation so be it.

Answer 5

I think you might want to re-word your question. I believe cell-stem research might lead to cures for cancer, MS, & other diseases, but the religious "right" would rather have zgotes thrown out in the trash rather than used for research. And for those who responded with "what God wants" .....if you believe in God, He gave you the brain to do research to survive.

Answer 6

Not a good idea to Mainstream...Some pin heads, don't need to be duplicated on this planet. Hilter was one. and this would also apply to air heads..L.O.Laughs!

Answer 7

if it helps save ppl from living in pain and can fix things so noone hurts or has to hurt i say go for it

Answer 8

It sounds dangerous. I don't think we could be sure of what we would come up with. I think it's better left alone.

Answer 9

no