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Flashmag September 2020 www.flashmag.net
It is only when some of a person's basic psychological characteristics are the intended result of another person's choice that the threat exists. So, if a person behaves in a certain way (in part) because he or she has certain psychological dispositions, and if those dispositions are (in part) due to a parental choice of genes intended to cause these dispositions, then that person is not fully responsible. for his behavior.
In the case of cloning, several authors believe that the child born by cloning at the same time loses a freedom of choice, in regards to his future because the latter seems to be traced by those who have decided to make him the exact copy of another person. It’ s what Joel Feinberg in his 2007 book The child's right to an open future, calls “the right to an open future”. Other author Dena S. Davis in her book Genetic Dilemmas. New York: Routledge, 2001, argues that reproductive cloning violates a child's right to an open future, especially in cases where the child is brought to life with the explicit intention of creating someone who looks like as much as possible to a pre-existing person.
While on the social and psychological level the genetic engineering used on humans, seems to raise more questions, even if some believe on the practical and health level, that we could create a superman, capable of surviving in a certain environment, or correct certain defects that some acquire, through natural births; despite everything, it seems opportune to point out that genetic manipulation opens up a pandora's box. As in the case of Irish potatoes, creating a range of human beings out of fashion, or out of profit, as technology, and capitalist speculation of profit, seem to be grafted in fashion every time to conquer simple souls; the threat against humanity is real. Humanity embellished may be, by some standards, would lose its genetic diversity which would lead to genetic erosion that no one would survive. It is important to stress that nature abhors imbalance, gains in one area always creates losses in another. there are no advantages without disadvantages. Is mankind ready to face the consequences of genetic engineering?
Hubert Marlin
Journalist
Sources Harvard Blog. Challenging Evolution: How GMOs Can Influence Genetic Diversity- Heater Landry.
Journal of Medical ethic: Reproductive cloning, genetic engineering and the autonomy of the child: the moral agent and the open future - M. Mameli
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