Thursday, 3 May 2012

Blog 7-Mr Seto-Li Bin(Lionel)-Science and Technology


   Science and technology are developing very fast in recent years. Human beings need to choose whether to accept some new technologies with ethical problems or not. Baby design is one of them. Baby design tends to solve some hereditary disease before babies are born; however, people want to use this technology to design their children’s characters and appearances. Then problems come after that. As far as I am concerned, I disagree with baby design being used in such way.
   Firstly, this technology is not mature enough. Scientists are still working on it. They cannot guarantee the success that baby is just like what people have expected. If it fails, they may lose a lot and get into trouble. Secondly, babies may hate the appearances and characters that their parents designed. For example, if the parents like curve hairs and yellow skin but their children do not, they may quarrel every day after the children grow up. The relationship between parents and children will be affected badly. In addition, if every baby is designed perfectly by their parents, people will be almost same. The world will be monotonous and tedious. What a horrible thing.
  Every person is unique and cannot be replaced by anyone. Parents should not design their children’s personalities and their lives. Baby design should be used to avoid the harm of hereditary disease rather than design lives.

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