Genetic Engineering

Although scientists know how to alter genes in some cases and assume that it is possible in others, little is really known about the long-term affects of the process. Adverse reactions and genetic mutations have the possibility of creating a strain of disease that could rival AIDS or even become much stronger If in the near future it is possible, would the fact that we can make that choice makes it right? Once we decide …

…of physical perpetuation at all costs that we are even willing to subject the human species to rigid architectural design? With human genetic engineering, we get something and we give up something. In return for securing our own physical well being, we are forced to accept the idea of reducing the human species to a technologically designed product. Genetic engineering poses the most functional of questions. Is guaranteeing our health worth trading away our humanity?