Pros And Cons Of Designer Babies
“Mom! Why was I not a designer baby?”
“Well, sweetie, your father and I did not have the money to design our own child like all of our friends were doing at the time.”
“I’m not as smart as all of the other kids in my class. I cannot run as fast as they can, and I cannot play an instrument like all of them can. I’m stupid! And it is because you did not design me to be any of those things, so now I am not good at anything!”
Sadly, this is probably what the world’s new generation of children would be like if some kids are designed by their parents and others are not. Children would not only feel bad about themselves, but they would blame their inabilities on their parents for not designing them to be something better than they are meant to be. …show more content…
Without the factor of designer babies, there is already competition between who runs faster and who can play better. Although that is the reason for extra-curricular activities, the rise in competition will be an extreme amount if designer babies are thrown into the picture. The fear of having “a race of super humans” (Baird 16) will not only create competition, it will also create a more defined level of social classes because the “genetically enhanced children [will have] an advantage over the children born with the ‘luck of the draw’ genes” (Designer Babies). Another concern that some people have is that messing with the genetics of a human could damage the gene pool and have long term consequences that doctors and scientists have not yet discovered (Baird 16). Similarly, some people wonder that if this procedure was safe then why are animals dying after being genetically engineered. Even if scientists can prefect this process through animals, are multiple humans going to have to die in order for scientists to be able to do this procedure safely and efficiently? Most of these people think it is a stupid risk to jeopardize human lives in order to create “super humans” (Baird
“Well, sweetie, your father and I did not have the money to design our own child like all of our friends were doing at the time.”
“I’m not as smart as all of the other kids in my class. I cannot run as fast as they can, and I cannot play an instrument like all of them can. I’m stupid! And it is because you did not design me to be any of those things, so now I am not good at anything!”
Sadly, this is probably what the world’s new generation of children would be like if some kids are designed by their parents and others are not. Children would not only feel bad about themselves, but they would blame their inabilities on their parents for not designing them to be something better than they are meant to be. …show more content…
Without the factor of designer babies, there is already competition between who runs faster and who can play better. Although that is the reason for extra-curricular activities, the rise in competition will be an extreme amount if designer babies are thrown into the picture. The fear of having “a race of super humans” (Baird 16) will not only create competition, it will also create a more defined level of social classes because the “genetically enhanced children [will have] an advantage over the children born with the ‘luck of the draw’ genes” (Designer Babies). Another concern that some people have is that messing with the genetics of a human could damage the gene pool and have long term consequences that doctors and scientists have not yet discovered (Baird 16). Similarly, some people wonder that if this procedure was safe then why are animals dying after being genetically engineered. Even if scientists can prefect this process through animals, are multiple humans going to have to die in order for scientists to be able to do this procedure safely and efficiently? Most of these people think it is a stupid risk to jeopardize human lives in order to create “super humans” (Baird