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 .