Genetic Manipulation Should Not Be Allowed

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le’s genetic information may be used without their information, or even worse, genetic materials could end up stolen and sold on the black market. In the end, your position in society will be based mainly on your genes. People from the genetic underclass or ‘Naturals’, will be excluded from jobs and insurance policies whereas the upperclass, or ‘Genrich’, will be favored (Silver, 2002) After all, wouldn’t you hire someone that has been genetically modified to work for your company?

Furthermore, governments fear that terrorists and rogue scientists will misuse information regarding genetic manipulation of human beings (Eipstein, 2002). By enhancing soldiers’ strength , endurance, stamina and intelligence, a new breed or ‘super soldiers’ will emerge. What will happen if these soldiers were controlled by power-hungry governments? Even more disturbing, what will happen if rogue scientists, using information on the human genome, succeeds in creating a new line of deadly viruses and biological weapons? Terrorists will be interested in these viruses, using them to intimidate the world. Exploitation of both super soldiers and deadly viruses could lead to suspicions and accusations among countries, and possibly even World War III.

Not only that, genetic manipulation is also strongly aga...