The Ethics Of Genetic Engineering
The Essay
Imagine the ability to be able to choose the gender of a child before its born, its hair color, or traits. This can be done through genetic engineering, which is, according to google,”The deliberate modification of the characteristics of an organism by manipulating its genetic material.” This seems amazing, absolutely amazing, but is it ethical?
Genetic engineering is not acceptable with the Christian faith. In the Holy Bible it says in 1 Corinthians 15:38-39 that, “God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.” When it says “God gives it a body as he has chosen,” it is …show more content…
From the Site “Who Is to Blame—You or Your Genes?,The Watchtower (2002)”, it talks about how jehovah witnesses refuse genetic engineering written by their leaders. In a quote, it says that “ Trying to pin the entire blame for our misconduct on our genes simply does not work. Rather than helping us to solve or overcome our problems, notes Psychology Today, doing so “may be teaching us a helplessness that is at the root of many of our problems. Instead of reducing the incidence of these problems, this seems to have fueled their growth”. So what this is saying is that instead of finding the genes that cause greed and hate, then taking them away from us, we should keep them because that wouldn't be right, and it would be impossible to sin. If there is no sin, there is no right, so we would just go through our days, hardly thinking, just doing what we are set to do.
One of the arguments for genetic engineering from businessinsider.com says,“One of the most tantalizing reasons for using CRISPR to edit human embryos is the potential to prevent devastating genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease”. While Huntington's disease and cystic fibrosis can be fatal, they can be treated, and if these diseases don't pick off the weak, life will only get harder and harder like providing food and
Imagine the ability to be able to choose the gender of a child before its born, its hair color, or traits. This can be done through genetic engineering, which is, according to google,”The deliberate modification of the characteristics of an organism by manipulating its genetic material.” This seems amazing, absolutely amazing, but is it ethical?
Genetic engineering is not acceptable with the Christian faith. In the Holy Bible it says in 1 Corinthians 15:38-39 that, “God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.” When it says “God gives it a body as he has chosen,” it is …show more content…
From the Site “Who Is to Blame—You or Your Genes?,The Watchtower (2002)”, it talks about how jehovah witnesses refuse genetic engineering written by their leaders. In a quote, it says that “ Trying to pin the entire blame for our misconduct on our genes simply does not work. Rather than helping us to solve or overcome our problems, notes Psychology Today, doing so “may be teaching us a helplessness that is at the root of many of our problems. Instead of reducing the incidence of these problems, this seems to have fueled their growth”. So what this is saying is that instead of finding the genes that cause greed and hate, then taking them away from us, we should keep them because that wouldn't be right, and it would be impossible to sin. If there is no sin, there is no right, so we would just go through our days, hardly thinking, just doing what we are set to do.
One of the arguments for genetic engineering from businessinsider.com says,“One of the most tantalizing reasons for using CRISPR to edit human embryos is the potential to prevent devastating genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease”. While Huntington's disease and cystic fibrosis can be fatal, they can be treated, and if these diseases don't pick off the weak, life will only get harder and harder like providing food and