4/14/08

Human Genome Project

When people talk about the rights and wrongs of the Human Genome Project the topic of natural selection seems to come up a lot. In my opinion the main reasoning behind the process is to put more perfection on humans and to expand their lifespans. However as stated before the question still remains on whether or not it is natural selection. I do not believe that it is natural. This process is going something scientific to the human genes. It is not something that is naturally happening to the genes. The traits that are automatically given to the human is what is natural, but then the human genome project is going in and changing what has already been given in these genes. Making this entire process not natural and not ethical. I feel as humans we tend to get confused on our ethics when we think up ideas such a the genome project. We forget about what is right and wrong and just focus on what could be the next great breakthrough. Although it might be great to redevelop or repair human genes so that they are the perfect human, what is that saying about us as a society? That we feel as though we must have a perfect population and that we can not handle the hardships that life has already NATURALLY given us? I feel that the Human Genome Project is simply a cover up and a making of something that just shows that we are insecure with pain and disabilities. A part of life is people coping with and growing from their defects or problems. Having a society that is all the same and these perfect people seems next to ridiculous to me. We are all so individualized and now we are going to try something that is going to make us all the same. I know personally i want to be independent and have to learn to live my life facing the problems that i was born with. I would not want to be born perfect because then what does life hold for you.