TED EDİRNE COLLEGE / 8-A
Money Trap
for Society
Toros YILMAZ
Should we edit our children’s genomes? Actually,
it depends. I mean from an ethical perspective, its
nature’s will, you could say, or if you are a religious
person you could say it’s a sin but in reality it always
comes to one end. Let me start with one simple fact,
genome engineering is expensive, really expensive,
so it’s a thing that only rich people or politicians can
do, but is it bad or good? Well that’s why I said “it
depends”. If you or your wife is pregnant and if the
baby that you’re going to have is sick because of a
broken gene, and of course if you have enough money
you can and you should edit your child’s genomes.
But, there is a really big problem that is going in our
planet right now, it’s called “physical genome editing”,
let me tell you why this thing is a really big problem. It is
killing the naturally born healthy genomes with other
genomes, and when the child grows up that genomes
are causing a lot of health issues for the person, and
it’s not ethical. But of course, as everything in the
world, this has money on its tail too, when these kind
of operations were not even an issue I wonder how
people lived. I mean they were born sick but, at least,
they lived somehow and if you’re asking my opinion
on this, I got to say, in my opinion, it’s just another
money trap for society.