specifically, what it has to do with my sisters keeper
2007-09-09 14:49:57 · 8 answers · asked by zozo 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
It leads to the idea of selectively breading humans. Who decides what kind of people are desirable, and what kind of people are inferior? This line of thinking lead to the rise of the NAZI party in Germany, the holocaust, and eventually WWII.
We don’t think that people have the right to decide what other people are supposed to be like.
2007-09-09 14:55:47 · answer #1 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
genetic engineering is not something that we can easily place into a "bad" or "good" category. Everything has a consequence to pay; especially when it involves such matters and the quest for curing diseases and ailments. It all depends on the employment we give this resource. This plays into the novel "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Piccoult in both ways seeing as how the younger sister was genetically modified to serve as a "universal donation bank" for her sister. It is an incredible feat to have offered the older sister the possibility of a better life sacrificing the stability and normality of her sister. Imagine how you would feel if you discovered that the only reason you were born was to be the ultimate donator for your sibling? That if she needed a kidney...they'd take it from you whether you wanted to or not just because that is why you were born...? Many concerns have arrisen since genetic engineering, biotechnolgy and cloning have come of age.
2007-09-09 18:26:42 · answer #2 · answered by krymzonregrets 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Think about this: the impetus for genetic engineering is profits. Research and trials are paid for by who? What do corporations have that you and I do not? Immortality and shareholders. Patenting life is the next step up from genetic engineering. Already done. You will have to pay royalties (tax), or they can remove your right to life. Are you a person or property? They own you if they made you. Now, if you must decide to harvest an organ of your 'perfect donor' sibling, she is also just property. Immortality? Dead again.
2007-09-10 05:27:42 · answer #3 · answered by pedro 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is bad, it could be used to immunize people from diseases from birth and could greatly help people, BUT people see what genetic engineering did to pigs and think oh hell no. starting in the early eighties, I could be wrong, they wanted pork to compete with chicken so they made it taste like it and look like it, but this led to the pigs losing a layer of fat so they had to be kept inside, and because of that they could never build up their immune system and now large pig farms that have these pigs are more like clean rooms you see in silicon valley.
what exactly do you mean your sisters keeper?
2007-09-09 15:09:14 · answer #4 · answered by Zack 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genetic engineering is neutral. It is the use and misuse of the end results of genetic engineering that may be either a boon or bane or both for mankind.
2007-09-09 14:55:45 · answer #5 · answered by Tom K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your sisters keeper?
what the hell are you talking about
but anyway
genetic engineering is NOT a bad thing for humans
it is just people who misrepresent biology who scare other people into thinking that if genetic engineering is allowed to take place there will be half horse-half human hybrids walking around
Of course we have to be careful in experiments involving manipulation of the germline in humans because these changes are of course, hereditary.
2007-09-09 14:54:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because so many people don't believe in God yet they want to play God, kind of hypocritical don't you think. What I am trying to say is that humans wants to dominate everything that is natural and the outcome is always the same, disastrous.
2016-05-20 23:00:01 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't necessarily, but stupid people are bound to ruin stuff with it.
2007-09-09 14:53:37 · answer #8 · answered by ZelosWilder 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋