Comments on: Genetically engineered children as products (McKibben)

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..

By: Milo

Milo — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:30:30 +0000

I think it’s a good method to ensure a brighter future for humanity… Even today some kids are born with the “lucky genes” and surpass other students in their subjects. Why not organise this natural trend? Also, it’s probably going to be used for appearance long before mental editing… Hey, I’d love for my son/daughter to have naturally dark skin with green eyes and straight jet black hair… Although the blame on parents would increase exponentially for more and more things:

“Why did you have to make me so dark, I hate you”
(but even that still happens in the random world)

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:07:45 +0000

This world is unacceptable… the thought of children being minupulated even before birth is enough to make my skin crawel… and dont just think about it from the ethics standpoint, think of it for the future. Some traits that have been geneticly altered and are out of date, the genetic enginering inside your children could not be able to compete with future enhancements would they feel like an out of date computer? This procidure also is very expensive… what about the lower class who cant afford this for their kids. Will these children be shunned by their altered class mates? kids already tease eachother enough.. lets go ahead and presure them some more and by something thats not even their own fault, but their parents who couldnt afford a better body for them. Go ahead let these kids watch the others out do them in every catagory immaginable.. let them sit helplessly in a class room while all other students can grasp the subjects because their thought processes were altered.. let the simple abilities that we all have slowly shrink into meaning nothing… immagine every child a perfect one, until of course the new model steps in…

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 12 May 2007 15:25:21 +0000

I have to say I for one am not looking forward to the mistakes. For instance, there is this video of a 2 nosed cow. SO GROSS! I don’t see how anyone eats meat when this is going on with our agriculture. Sometimes even the tomatoes seem scary with all the genetic modification but when it’s a sentient being it’s unacceptable. Check it out: http://thenewsroom.com/details/293754/Life and Leisure

By: holmegm

holmegm — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:14:42 +0000

I’m not so sure that the real problem (for Christians, anyway) is the inability to take pride (in oneself or one’s children).

In my opinion, the problem would be the usurpation of the role of creator; the giving of thanks to the wrong source (or to no source – not giving, or not even being able to give, thanks).