their humanity, because their only goal in life would be to “outgrow” other genetically altered and laboratory athletes.
While genetic engineering and altering of the human genome
can bring about enormous medical benefits, I believe genetic
engineering will have devastating effects on human life that
we don’t fully understand. We can’t accurately predict what
will happen if we continue on the path of altering human DNA,
but the possible consequences can be shown with asking a few
simple questions. Can humans be classified as human or
sentient if we are not as we were originally created? That is to
say, if we artificially alter ourselves and others, even if what
we put into ourselves is organic, are we still truly us? I believe
the answer to be no. We are using artificial means to recreate
ourselves, which means what comes out of the process will not
be entirely us. No longer will we be born and raised, but rather
created and grown out of laboratories. When learning high
school biology, everyone learns the list of all things something
must be able to accomplish to be considered “living.” One of
those requirements is that it must reproduce. If we humans
are not reproducing anymore, but rather being produced out of
test tubes and petri dishes, what gives us the right to classify
ourselves as living, much less human?