Should Gene Editing Be Allowed For Humans?
Gene Editing is a way to change, or modify your traits as a human. Such as: changing your eye color, and your risk of getting certain diseases, or even improving your immune system. Scientists use a program or device called CRISPR that works by going into your DNA strands making it possible for the scientists to physically remove a gene and replace it with another such as getting rid of cancer, etc.
The benefits of gene editing is it can prevent diseases like: Inherited disorders, Cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, beta thalassemia, and sickle cell disease, it can also treat types of cancer, or infections. Some more diseases that can likely be cured or reduced is: Autism which can be reduced making it possible to be able to think better and make your coordination better.
The bad things about human gene editing is it can contaminate the human gene pool, Also since the genes have been changed they will be passed on to the next generation, which is probably the biggest concern among people or scientists. People also think that it can do a lot of good but it is also very dangerous because CRISPR works but it can make mistakes such as it cutting in the wrong spot making it kind of bad because if you were trying to get a large part of the DNA and you get the wrong spot it could probably contain some DNA that your body needs. Because I don't think you could replace all of your DNA all at once or it will be really bad. For example, mutation will occur and who knows what will happen.
I personally believe that gene editing can help our society and the people in it, but I also believe that it can also be the cause of mutations and since all the genes that have been edited are being passed on to the next generation who knows what could happen to humans in the future from these mutations.
What are your thoughts on Gene Editing and how it can be good or bad for our people, or how it will affect us?
Also, do you think it should be banned or not?
Sources: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dark-side-of-crispr/
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Great topic choice Ethan! Your summary is pretty good but the third paragraph could be stated better. You only replied two times where you should have abiout twelve replied.
I think that gene editing should not be allowed. I feel like it could lead to many problems in the furture such as, to much power, non human attributes, etc. I feel that it can affect us bad or good, depending on how we use it. I think it should be banned, it is very dangerous and should not be allowed to change humans and there attributes.
Do you think that gene editing should be banded? in my personal opinion i think that gene editing should be banned because why shoul sientists be able to mess with our genetics and trying to figure what happends when you mix this things into us and they just waite to see what will happen without knowing the side effecs.
I feel as if it should be banned. There is many risks when going into a subject like this one. The health concerns and inequality are major problem. The health concerns with it are the gene alteration it could damage you really bad if not done properly. And inequality, only the extreme wealthy would be able to access this and that in some peoples eyes is not fair.
I think that gene editing diffendently has its ups and downs and so very good ups and downs. do you think it should or should be banned or not? Yes i do think that it should be banned. I think that the negitives outweight the positives a lot more in gene editing.
I think that gene editing SHOULD be banned, I think that it should be banned because God made us all unique and we are perfect in his eyes. I think that it could be good in a way but it would defeat the point of being unique.
do you think it should or should be banned or not. I feel like yes it should be banned however good it sounds i think the negiteves over power the good There are to many things in the negitive catagoy that could go wrong and if they do they will blame the doctore
Gene editing has its positives and negatives, and while some of the positives sound really beneficial, I think gene editing should be banned. There are many things that could go wrong, and there are many consequences if you were to test something using gene editing.
I personally think that gene editing is going to far and will lead the world into a movie type craziness. I do not think it is humane to edit a persons genes. I can see why some would think it could be benefical as you could prevent diseases, but I think we all know that the world can be crazy and that people would take gene editing too far.
I think that gene editing can be good and bad because it can save many lives in the future and it can cure diseases. For example cancer,heart problems, and etc, but it can be wrong if they wanted to not be like everyone else like they wanted to be different from others like to be unique.
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