Cultural Analysis of "Genetically Engineered Babies?"

In the post below, I will be performing a cultural analysis on the article "Genetically Engineered Babies?".

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The cultural keywords of this article are "uncertainty", "eugenics" and "ethics." All three words describe the author's argument against designer babies. Uncertainty describes how genetic engineering is not guaranteed to succeed. Eugenics explains the potential of where genetic engineering can take our society. Ethics explains how genetic engineering is not only unfair to the baby, but how it's unfair to society as well because the baby will have "desired" genes. Favoring the ban against genetically engineering embryos is the main idea of this article. The author provides evidence against how unethical engineering a human is.

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As presented in the article, "mother nature does not care." Even if scientists were 99.9% sure their experiments would work, there is still a 0.01% chance of failure. Because of this, designer babies come with uncertain outcomes. In addition, there are millions of genetic sequences for one characteristic, so it's nearly impossible to alter every single one and create a desirable outcome.

The article mentions that designer babies could be a step towards "eugenics." The author uses Nazi Germany as an example of how unethical eugenics really is. Creating a "perfect" human is impossible because the perception of perfectness is subjective based on each individual.

Genetically engineering a babie is also unethical. The author mentions it's unfair to the baby for someone else to decide his or her fate. In addition, the baby is given an unfair advantage in life if he or she was designed to be smarter than others, for example. Because of this, genetically designing a baby is unethical.