TED DİYARBAKIR COLLEGE / 8-A
What About
Ethics?
İklim TOKLU
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As you know, technology has developed a lot and
there have been many discoveries in the last couple
of decades such as modifying unborn children’s
genomes and giving humankind “Godly power “by
modifying DNA, living forever, brain implants, copying
human bodies and more, could potentially change our
lives. I personally think these “powers” should not exist
because the selfish-ness and the passion to rule of the
humankind would corrupt the future.
So, I think if people decide on making a “better” human,
it will change our lives permanently and it won’t be
probably in a good way. Since people cannot even get
on well with others such as people of other genders,
ethnicities, and ideas. I think they would not be fine
with the idea of a “superior human kind”, and they
might be right about some aspects of it. For example, it
is not fair to compete with people who are genetically
enhanced by their parents. Since you did not choose
who you are, a lower-class person can suffer compared
to some others who are genetically enhanced people.
As I mentioned earlier, people become selfish and
craving for power and money. So, these “superior
people” might believe that they are the ones to govern
the world, and that can easily turn into hegemony and
slavery.