Gattaca Genetic Engineering

The article of “The Case Against Perfection,” talks about how Sandel does not think of “genetic engineering” is the right way to do it. He says that it is okay to use them to prevent or cure diseases and even repair injuries, but not to produce children in a genetically enhancing because the parent wants their child a certain way. In the movie “Gattaca” also relates to the article because Vincent was the normal child unlike his brother Anton who was the perfect child that his father had been wanting. It shows how some parents want some of their kids to have certain traits, looks, height, and be smart which not every family member comes out to be like that. The argument that Sandel was making throughout his article was that genetic engineering and eugenics taking over the giftedness that we have because the
Basically, the talents that we are born with, like, the abilities, looks, athletic, how smart we are, etc, which we are responsible for in order to improve all of our traits. Enhancement technologies is like a threat to the giftedness that we are born with because if our parents designed the way we were, we would be working and doing our best fro nothing because they were not obtain from natural traits instead they were chosen and designed to create a human-being. Genetic enhancement is basically taking over our natural traits and is creating us someone who we are not. Gattaca was to show how the future would be if eugenics would take over. Which means that children are chosen from genetic manipulation that their parents chose for them, instead of creating them themselves naturally. An example from the movie “Gattaca,” which I found perfect was when Vincent was not perfect because of his heart defects, height, weak, short and not big, and he tried to overcome his genetic inferiority. This example shows and proves why some people would want to use genetic engineering because they would want to design their children