Comments on: Genetically engineered children as products (McKibben)

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:20:36 +0000

I think that by doing this we are taking the child’s right away to be original and not be like everyone else. By having your child be the same or not unique what will make he or she special. When you do that you are basically saying if your child were to come out any diffident then you would not accept them as they are.

By: clarrisa

clarrisa — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:01 +0000

Can you make kids who want to be diffrent diffrent even if they are already born? If you can do it and find me. I hate my life how it is and i want to make it my own choice. First you’d have to improve better with the genes though. I don’t care about being smarter.

By: clarrisa

clarrisa — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:43:00 +0000

Honestly I’m a kid and I think it awesome that there are kids diffrent in the world.I wish i could be one acctually. I think it would be wicked cool if they mixed avain DNA with the human DNA. Make 2% avain bird and 98% human. I totally would love to have wings and better vision and strength!!! I have dreamed of that for years while im tortured with school and kids who hate me. How fair is that there could be kids who don’t go to school because they are special and some of us who get picked on would love what they get to be. They could also possibly survive when the “end of the world” comes. Man, if you could only imagine how much i want to be a kid/bird. I think it would make my life easier if I was

By: Katriece

Katriece — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:33:51 +0000

Theres’s no way this should be allowed as a cosmetic procedure or for enhancing someones IQ. If genetic engineering was used for medical purposes only, like to help a child likely to have a serious illness or disability. Im sure someone religious would disagree or say this would mess with the natural order of life and death. But I think this advancement in biotechnology could cure the future of disease. Thats a beautiful thing!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:19:33 +0000

This is just like our society. Let the wealthy people (who will be the only ones to afford these procedures) make their kids even smarter by unatural ways. This will be a grat way to improve an American economy wich already favors the wealthy. NOT!

By: mallory

mallory — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:55:32 +0000

it is up to g-d to decide traits, not people in lab coats. i agree with jessica. Society will be seperated: the perfect people and the regular people. So how will the regulars compete?
this quote from the Incredibles speaks the truth: “Everyone’s special, Dash.’ ‘Which is another way of saying no one is”

By: caiti

caiti — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:33:30 +0000

It shouldn’t matter which is moral by everybody’s different opinions. If it saves lives, it’s worth furthering research. If we suddenly discover that it inhumanely kills the genetically engineered, then obviously we need to stop. But at this point neither has been proven, so screw your “morals” and take a freaking chance. It could save hundreds of lives in the future. You can’t fairly judge what you know nothing about.

By: tanisha

tanisha — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:33:08 +0000

i think that parents should be able to. i have a mentle disability and if i had a choice i would of took it. i would have been a normal kid!

By: Jenna

Jenna — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:45:57 +0000

Read ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ Kate.

By: kate

kate — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:03:57 +0000

What happens if one of your children is very very sick and the only way she will survive is with an exact match in dna? So you genetically engineer to have another daughter who will be able to provide blood/marrow/organs. Is that bad?? because on the one hand you have a child dying and you know that you can fix all the problems if you provide a donor..but on the other hand that child born out of a test tube will still be human and may not want to donate her body..