Genetic Engineering

Genetic engineering is a procedure which should be governed by strict limitations. Acceptable practices will seem to change determined by the individuals moral standards, but at what point does science intermingle with God's creations? The main use of genetic engineering should be to prevent physical deformities, and illnesses. When hair color, eye color, and other physical features are being altered first that's when you know we have gone too far. Think about it from this perspective, would you rather your child with blond hair or no legs? You decide which comes first.

These moral standards have been force fed to us ever since we were born. What is right and what is wrong, these are merely the Protestant, Judeo,and Christian opinions on which our country was raised. Our morals by which we judge things are completely different from that of an Islamic society. So in writing this one would only have a fraction of multi-cultural feelings towards genetic engineering. A parent from the Middle East would have a different opinion from that of a North American parent, this clarification would be necessary in order to set the moral guidelines of genetic engineering.

If society allows the alteration of minor physical features there would be little to no diversity within our culture. Eventually everyone would have similar physical, as well as mental traits. In some ways this may benefit our society in the future, but will limiting diversity in order to build a uniform society be a positive? This will take away peoples inherited character and appear to be a robot like society. If these moral barriers are overlooked our society could possibly be turned upside down and manipulated with ease. Democracy could be eliminated due to genetic engineering, and as an American is that the society you want to live in?