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designer babies not only will allow mankind to lose the essence of who we are, imperfect, but also will make way for more moral issues to erupt. for example, when engineering a designer baby, the genetic make up of the babies can be changed. who's to say one day we won't be bringing these designer babies and carrying them around like fashion accessories!?! if we can change the genetic make up, altering the alleles that affect the way people look, the same way we can decide if we want a nike shoe or an adidas, than are we not reducing the way we each look, individually, to that of mere products?
it's true that this form of genetic modification can reduce risk of birth defects, but in nature, in natural selection itself, survival of the fittest has always and should always be in place. designer babies will also cause a population boom worldwide. so no, i stand firmly against designer babies. It lowers the standard of our population and will cause other both ethical and physical issues in our world.
accidents happen. not all the time, i concede, but between someone who's under the age of 17, and those above the age of 17, those over the age of 17 will be able to handle the pressure of deciding whether or not to keep the child, and will be able to make a wiser decision for both themselves and the child. consider this, who will be able to cope with the stress better? granted that not everybody above the age of 17 will be able to make better informed decisions, but compared to someone who is, for example, 14, in most instances, the elder will be able to make a smarter choice.
In the United States alone, guns are the most common out of all weaponry including knives, switchblades, cars etc as the weapon in murders. America, despite being a developed country, ranked 26th in the world in number of murders in which the murder weapon was a gun. Many say that it's the murderer, not the weapon who should be looked upon, and that a gun on its own cannot do any harm until it's in someone's hands. But see the reason why these weapons of mass destruction can even get into these people's hands are due to loose laws on gun possession. tighten the laws, and the numbers will surely go down. right now, in the US, background checks are rarely done in more than 40% of gun sales, since most people buy from relatives/friends. so yes, the laws should be tightened.
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