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Essay / Playing God - 932
From horse carriages to magnetic levitation trains, technological advancements have contributed to the superior development of countries at a dizzying speed. This unstoppable process is leading to a steady stream of new innovations in the modern United States that could lead to life-changing changes. However, with advanced medical technology now becoming more easily accessible to the general public, people are more exposed to the idea of creating a more idealistic and flawless society. Ideas such as genetically modifying children to acquire characteristics that further contribute to becoming a socially acceptable and superior human being are the result of advances in technology. Despite parental freedom to genetically modify their children in order to help prevent disease and improve living conditions, the process of creating designer babies through free will violates and artificially creates human nature, leading people towards a world dependent on technology. create a tailor-made baby who will live normally without risk of hereditary diseases or disabilities. Due to the free market, sophisticated medical technology and medical personnel are employed in increasingly fashionable cosmetic surgery; and at the same time, due to aggressive marketing by its manufacturers, genetically modified human growth hormone, developed to address the medical problem of growth hormone deficiency, is routinely prescribed in the United States to normal, short children without hormonal deficiency. If these pressures already exist, how much greater will they be for a technology with as much power to manipulate human life as the GLE? And of course, once the technology was described in the scientific literature, it would be possible to, for...... middle of article ......r drastically thanks to new breakthroughs in genetic engineering; the changing capacities of human characteristics will become irrefutably unpredictable. So, with the rapid advancement of technology, it is the willingness of people to recognize how far and how much humanity should invest and know exactly when to stop to avoid future discontinuities in the nature of humanity. “Hooray for designer babies!.” Reason. December 27, 2002: np SIRS researcher. Internet. January 31, 2011.Naik, Gautam. “A baby, please.” The Wall Street Journal. February 12, 2009: A.10. SIRS researcher. Internet. February 3, 2011.Pavlat, Eric. "Superhuman." Crisis Magazine Vol. 25, no. 4. May 2007: 10-18. SIRS researcher. Internet. January 31, 2011. Singer, Emily. “Choosing Babies.” Technology Review Vol. 110, no. 2. March/April 2007: 86 87. SIRS researcher. Internet. February 3 2011.