Figs
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That's just the media and Hollywood scaring the crap out of people who aren't educated in a life science background... now I ain't an expert or anything... but I do know you can't solve genetic diseases unless you get right down to the DNA itself and f*** around with it (in a good way)... cancer, cognitive disorders, diseases... there isn't a magical pill or vaccine to everything.
But the future is the future. Eventually aging will be a thing of the past. Parents will be picking hand pick the genes for their kids. It is what it is... you can't tell me what's for the better and what isn't... that's just your belief and I respect that. It all part of human evolution and expanding our abilities... Grandpa's genes ain't gonna get it done when we go into the 21st century and beyond.
What do you mean by it's the media trying to scare people exactly?
So their not really doing stem cell research or their just trying to make it sound bad?
I don't know about whether what's better and what isn't but I don't like the idea of being able to, as you put it as an example, being able to hand pick genes for your kids. I just think in the long run it will start to lower the value of human life.
Similar to Euthanasia, this person isn't fit to live type stuff. That and the whole idea of hand picking genes seems like it will make the respect for human life a little trivial. I can just see people in the future doing it as if their shopping for clothes or something.
For all I know, maybe I'll warm up to it in the future but as of now I'm sort of in the middle on it.