The Use of Eugenetics

Science’s use of genetics is kind of an uncomfortable topic. Maybe because of my Christian upbringing, but the idea of planning out the state someone is in when they are born is very much ‘playing God.’ I personally feel that a person should be created as natural as possible, without as many risks as possible. Yet, at the same time, I understand why some people nowadays are for it. If the possibility of an ailment or disease can be cured even before they begin life, then naturally the parent would be all for the use. But at the same time, there can be a lot of bad that can come from messing with genetics as well (as did the article remind me of). With the wrong person in charge or wrong intentions, there could some drastic consequences; such as with what was happening with the Nazi regime all those years ago. Now, I realize there is a difference between just ‘studying’ genetics and actually taking action. But if you can put thought into something, like pre-arranging a baby’s state of being, than how much more would it take to be tempted into actually testing that theory in all seriousness?