Question

wite 3-5 senctences response to this post in your own words .

COLLAPSE

Genetic treatment is is gene therapy, which is using genetic material to help fight a disease, it is for the health and well being of the patient. Genetic enhancement is adjusting the genetic makeup of a person by using genetic material to do so.

Summarize Glannon, Savulescu, and Sandel’s reasons for considering genetic enhancement ethically acceptable or unacceptable.

Glannon finds genetic enhancement as an unfair advantage, and is against it ethically.  Savulescu finds it important to continue to strive for the best in terms of enhancement. Sandel believes is is exactly opposite of what Savulescu suggests, as his case strongly suggests that there are many things wrong with enhancing the human race.

I personally believe that Genetic enhancement does give people an unfair advantage, as we would find people with money to find power in everything about enhancing their bodies. We would find men and women who would be unattainable in beauty standards as well as people who are genetically enhanced much stronger. With strength, this would eliminate natural selection in terms of athletes being able to try out for professional teams, people who have actual natural strength and abilities, as they would be competing against genetically enhanced people who would be more inclined to run faster, or throw harder, etc. We also do not know or understand the implications of genetically enhanced people and future generations, as we do not know what these changes will do with future genetic formulations. What if a genetically enhanced person breeds with a non enhanced person? What if two genetically enhanced people breed and we find that it is very detrimental to future viability of the offspring? I think it is a very interesting idea, and maybe we should be able to understand it more in the future by testing it, BUT I honestly do not feel as though I would ever want to see these kinds of options available to my children. We spend a lot of years learning to accept ourselves now, how hard would it be for future generations to feel desire or greatness in themselves if they were consistently failing in comparison to these altered beings?

Answer 1

?Genetic enhancement is an interesting concept, though, like many concepts of gene alteration is a big area of debate. Genetic enhancement has not been tried and tested, yet. Though, we hear about the positive sides of genetic enhancement, we are completely unknown of the negatives it might bring about. It is like de-extinction. A great concept, fancy with all its implications, but we as humans are unaware of the actual consequences when such extinct animals would start living within us. Similarly, though it sounds nice that we could get our genetic make up altered, we are unaware of the reproductive aspects of this technique. Also, we are not aware of the unfair advantage added to the society and its effects on the “normal” people. Anyway, our society is a victim of stratification due to unfair social distributions, this would just add another tier to it. Moreover, I feel, rather than comparisons to strive for the perceived perfect, the perfect should be what the individual himself is. That eliminates the desires to go for such treatments.