TED BATMAN COLLEGE / 10-A
Should We Really Edit Our Children ’ s Genomes ?
Dilba YAVUZ
50
Do you know anything about gene exchange ? The birth of a child with genetic disease is often something unexpected . Today , thanks to science we can edit our children ’ s genomes . We can prevent our children from the diseases even before they are born . But , should we do this ?
You know every person is born into the world with genetic differences . But if we changed them , if we made them perfect , what kind of consequences would there be ? Think about it . Think about a world where so many people have the same appearance . That is not good .
There are different results of it , too . If scientists make genome regulation in the future , obviously they will not do it for free . People will have to pay for it and there will be so many people who cannot afford this . So , some people will make use of it and some of them will not . For this reason , there will be discrimination and social stratification in the world .
If people only made use of genome regulation to prevent the diseases , that would be a great step in medicine . All death rates would decrease and people would not be suffering . But I think this is not the case . People will want to change their children ’ s eye colour , hair colour , mouth , nose , etc . So , all the children will be born with the perfect eye , nose , and weight . They will be same and I think this is horrible .
We are who we are and our differences make us unique and beautiful . Our defects are part of our personality , and I think we have to keep it this way .