Designer Babies In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Designer Baby Technology The simple idea of being able to choose the appearance of your child sounds like a crazy fantasy as, “In his groundbreaking 1932 novel Brave New World, writer Aldous Huxley envisioned a future in which advances in fertility technology would eliminate natural reproduction in mankind. Instead, he imagined, embryos would be modified to predetermine intellect, physical prowess, and beauty” (Introduction to Designer Babies: At Issue). The possibility to choose the appearance and traits your future child could possess was a seemingly impossible dream, but now it is becoming more of a reality with the help of the newest technological advancements and research on the formation and structure of DNA. What is at stake in all
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Although this may sound convincing it does not eliminate the fact that there will still be the temptation for parents to “design” their own babies farther than just preventing diseases, but favorable physical traits which could lead to another mass superiority to a standard image as in the Holocaust. “many discussions about the ethics of cloning, of potential genetic manipulation and selection of ‘designer babies,’ and of eugenic dreams fueled by purported racial, cultural, and aesthetic ‘superiority’” (Babies, Bodies and Buyers). Even with this new technology that has forever changed how we see the birth of a child, there may lie a hidden harm to the country in later years to come. It could create the degradation of ethical values which include experimenting with a human life, with the unborn child’s life at stake. As well as potentially dividing the people more by claiming a generic “idol image”; creating a superior image within the people. By following through with Designer Babies it could establish a new way of seeing the human life, it may become disposable and experimental rather than
Although this may sound convincing it does not eliminate the fact that there will still be the temptation for parents to “design” their own babies farther than just preventing diseases, but favorable physical traits which could lead to another mass superiority to a standard image as in the Holocaust. “many discussions about the ethics of cloning, of potential genetic manipulation and selection of ‘designer babies,’ and of eugenic dreams fueled by purported racial, cultural, and aesthetic ‘superiority’” (Babies, Bodies and Buyers). Even with this new technology that has forever changed how we see the birth of a child, there may lie a hidden harm to the country in later years to come. It could create the degradation of ethical values which include experimenting with a human life, with the unborn child’s life at stake. As well as potentially dividing the people more by claiming a generic “idol image”; creating a superior image within the people. By following through with Designer Babies it could establish a new way of seeing the human life, it may become disposable and experimental rather than