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Posted by: Boot117
Posted by: Alerus
Posted by: Boot117
Posted by: Alerus
If we are ever able to genetically maniuplate ourselves to improve our condition with little risk, I think we should go for it. I don't consider it cheap, the technology to do that was after thousands of years of intelligence. Humans should strive to improve themselves in all ways and if the race is smart enough to figure out how to enhance our physical abilities we should go for it. Our intelligence is a tool as is our sharing of it. This is not to say people should use steroids or other drugs because the use of drugs have other very severe side effects.
Sharing intelligence is fine, but turning ourselves into something in-human is not. Taking performance enhancing drugs, steroids, HGH's its all equally bad and wrong. And its just as bad 500 years from today as it is right now. Just because we have the intelligence to do something doesn't mean we should go do it. We could clone an army of young children, why dont we? Because its against the majority of people's morals including mine. Just because you have the ability to do something, doesn't give you the ticket to do it. America could invade, occupy and probably take over South America, why dont you? Because most people wont support it.
Your taking things to quite extremes heres. I'm not saying we should do anything because we can, but discovering how to enhance ourseleves with out side effects has no down sides. How is it inhuman? I think its completely human, we have learned how to inprove ourselves which we have been doing all along. Maybe then we shouldn't have artificial hearts, thats inhuman. Or maybe we shouldn't drive cars, humans are supposed to walk! I guess we also shouldn't be taking medicines that heal us, or take vitamin pills just because we learned how to extract vitamins into a compact form. Let me ask you this, why would it be okay if a million years from now humans had overtime mutated into something else? Our intelligence allows us to increase are ability. Can you tell me what bad will come from increasing the physical abilities of everyone?
Its in-human because its not natural. Side effects or no side effects, it not right. Just like cloning. I dont know why this was pulled up but if humans evolved, not mutated, than they evolve its natural and right. Overall, this is a battle of morals and ethics. If you think doing strange things like unnaturally enhancing yourself and other strange things like that, then those are you morals. Mine are that unless you earn it you dont deserve it.
Explain to me how medicine, glasses, artificial hearts, cars, vitamins, casts, major surgery, etc etc is natural then. I guess you dont get flu shots either unless you can explain how thats natural too.
[Edited on 7/14/2004 10:19:08 PM]