http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-born.html
Personally I think this news is fantastic.
I'm baffled as to why anyone, especially someone who is a lord and incharge of a hospital would refer to such research as "worthless".
Well thats not strictly speaking true, I do know. People think this type of research will lead to some type of doomsday abominations being made or perhaps a tiered society based on peoples genetics. They would seem to of watched too much sci-fi and be dead to the fact that the latter is already the case. People are already being praised for being more intelligent, more agile, more fit, more beautiful. If anything the fruition of such research would level the playing field for the next generation.
Some of the objections have been that if this type of research is pursued to its conclusion it would redefine what it meant to be human. That it could actually change the human genome as a whole.
In what world is this a bad thing? Its not like we can make it anymore screwed up than it already is. I mean you have things like genetic conditions, hereditary retardation and people are having kittens because... what? They might feel alittle obsolete if the next generation has afew advantages denied to them? But isn't providing those advantages the very basis of our society?
Progress isn't made by the people who let their insecurities and prejudices run them.
It is not to men like Lord Winston we owe our ascension beyond the lowly origins of our species. It is intellect tempered by prudence that should define the line we draw, not cowardice.
Personally I think this news is fantastic.
I'm baffled as to why anyone, especially someone who is a lord and incharge of a hospital would refer to such research as "worthless".
Well thats not strictly speaking true, I do know. People think this type of research will lead to some type of doomsday abominations being made or perhaps a tiered society based on peoples genetics. They would seem to of watched too much sci-fi and be dead to the fact that the latter is already the case. People are already being praised for being more intelligent, more agile, more fit, more beautiful. If anything the fruition of such research would level the playing field for the next generation.
Some of the objections have been that if this type of research is pursued to its conclusion it would redefine what it meant to be human. That it could actually change the human genome as a whole.
In what world is this a bad thing? Its not like we can make it anymore screwed up than it already is. I mean you have things like genetic conditions, hereditary retardation and people are having kittens because... what? They might feel alittle obsolete if the next generation has afew advantages denied to them? But isn't providing those advantages the very basis of our society?
Progress isn't made by the people who let their insecurities and prejudices run them.
It is not to men like Lord Winston we owe our ascension beyond the lowly origins of our species. It is intellect tempered by prudence that should define the line we draw, not cowardice.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
- Abdul Alhazred.
