Yes, I would select special traits. Why not? Because your tampering with nature? We already tamper with nature now, and if I am able to have the genetic peak in my child I would want to. For two reasons, one everyone else would do it so I wouldn't want my child to feel different and discriminated against like in GATTACA. Two if everyone did it, my child wouldn't be above everyone else, they would be the average.
I would not select special traits for my child if given the opportunity. I rather just let my child live his or her life and not have to worry about what disease they are going to get in the future, if diagnosed with one. Yeah it would be cool to decide what my child is going to look like, but I love surprises and wouldn't want to know what he/she was going to look like.
I'm on the same side with Sammy, so I wouldn't "geneticallly engineer" my children unless it's a life or death problem. I understand why some people might want to do this, but it all comes down to selfishness. It's being selfish to have the "perfect" child.
Yes, I do feel like this is messing too much with nature. Nature is beautiful how it is. I would find my child beautiful just how he/she is solely because it is mine, and would find no reason to have made him/her more "perfect."
I wouldn't select special traits because as esther said, it's messing with nature, but also you wouldn't have the surprise of how your child looks when it's born and as it grows. Also, what happens happens. If they're diagnosed with a desease later in life then I would deal with it. I guess since it would be my baby, I'd want it to have the traits that it gets from each parent not some "specially selected" ones.
I don't think I'd genetically engineer my children given the chance. Part of the miracle of DNA and heredity is that your children are, in a sense, partly you, and tampering with the DNA takes that away. Growing up is about learning to "play the cards you're dealt". Everyone has things they don't like about themselves, and learning to love yourself in spite of these things is a crucial part of growing up. If we were all dealt a genetically engineered "perfect hand", I think everyone would actually miss out on important life experiences.
Yes, I would give my child special traits if I had the power to. It would allow my child to do anything they would want to, and not be held back by disabilities that would be caused by a regular birth. Especially in an environment like GATTACA, they could be accepted by any organization they wanted.
I would not choose given traits for my child. I feel it is inhumane to take tampering with nature this far in changing the offspring. I also hate the idea of a future where everyone is perfect, and perfect becomes the new normal.
I wouldn't choose special traits for my children because i want them to be unique. I wouldn't want to change their DNA becuase, like Elise said, it means that the children are not totally me and my spouse anymore. I don't want a genetically engeneered child, I want a child that is created based on my genetic information.
I wouldn't genetically engineer my child because that would not be natural. If it were a life or death situation I still don't think I would do it, because it would still be unnatural. I agree with Esther that it seems selfish, because you want your child to be perfect. I think that perfection isn't meant to happen, because it doesn't happen naturally.
If I were to have a child in the future and was given the choice to genetically change the child's special traits, I would refuse because adding special traits to a child wouldn't be natural. I think that the child should be born with traits from only both parents.
If I were to have a child in the future and I were given the choice to give them special traits or even take away negative traits I would never do it. I would want them to be exactly who they are. If, say, the doctors say they are going to have bad eyesight when they turn fifteen, who knows, maybe getting glasses will be when they meet their first boyfriend or something. I don't want to mess up what they could have naturally. I feel it is immoral.
I would select certain health related traits for my child so they would be healthy and so they wouldn't have any disorders but I wouldn't give them traits that would make them stronger or smarter than a normal person.
I wouldn't want to select the traits of my children because i wouldn't want to know everything about my child before they were even born. Part of the fun would be finding out about them and it would be messing with nature to do it. I would want my child to be unique.
If I were to have a child in the future and was given the choice to give them special trait I would do it for certain traits. For example I would do it for healh related traits so that the child is healthy and has less problems in the future. I would love to make my child's life easier. If I were to choose traits like physical appearance I wouldn't do it because I would want my child to look like me and look natural. I also wouldn't give my child traits that would make him stronger or smarter than other people because these are te things that you achieve. They're the things that you work on throughout your life. They also make the life more interesting and vibrant.
If I had the choice to genetically choose how my child would look, I wouldnt want to. I would leave that to chance. But if I could get rid of a disorder or disease then I would for the sake of my child. But then again I agree with Steele in that if everyone is doing it I wouldn't want my child to feel different and to have the same discrimination as in the movie.
I probably wouldn't do that. I might try to make sure that my child isn't vulnerable to any diseases, but I wouldn't change anything else. I would feel really inhumane if I tried to give my kid "perfect" traits. Even though life might be a little harder for them without those special traits, I wouldn't want to tamper with nature. I agree with Claire when she says that perfection isn't natural. You should let each person be unique. I think that part of growing up is finding out what you're good at, or not good at, and building your own skills, not having them chosen for you.
It is unfair and sad that in the movie GATTACA people are discriminated against if their parents didn't select certain traits for them, but I still wouldn't want to have a perfect child.
If it were possible to give my child certain special traits I would not do it because I believe it is better to let nature run its course. It would be wrong to make a child look a certain way just because you are afraid that the way the would naturally look would be undesirable.
Well, I dont accutly think I would, because the geneticaly moddifyed child would be strong, it would not truely be my child it would be the scientist's creations. Also the chance of getting diffrent genes and not knowing what color the child's eye color will be, or what they will look like is just the fun of parenting. Although not having to give birth would be a plus.
If you could select special traits, I wouldn't, because its inhumane. However, if very early detection of a mutation was possible, I would probably change the traits so the baby won't have diseases.
I would not want to select the traits of my child if I could. I don't want to tamper with the universe and I feel like the traits my child would posses would be a little unnatural to me. If I could, I would try to make my child have no diseases so they could live a happy long life, but I also feel like that even if I let my child be born naturally and they ended up having a disease, I would accept that that was supposed to happen and learn to live with it, though it might not be easy. Also I like not knowing what my child would look like and having it be a surprise when they were born.
I probably wouldn't select the traits of my child unless they were at risk for a life-threatening or other disorder that would detrimentally affect their life; this would include Down's Syndrome and PKU, in fact most of the disorders we studied, but as far as characteristics and personality I would not.
I don't think that I would change my child's over-all appearence very much, like facial details and what not, but I might add something interesting like violet coloured eyes, but not too drastically different.
The only trait I would choose to give my child would be left handedness, and that doesn't really effect them much. I would just want them to be more like me in that aspect. Other than that, I would not mess around with how they are meant to be. Your child is already the perfect balance of you and your partner.
I wouldn't want to do so, because even though the child would be exactly everything I want it to be, I wouldn't want that at all. I would want a surprise. Something I wouldn't expect. A trait, charateristic, whatever that's completely new.
I guess my opinion differs from many people here, but if I could choose for my child to have the best possible chances of survival and for them to live the best life they could, then I would. I wouldn't go as far as picking hair color, eye color, height, and the way my child would look, but I would definitely pick the child with the lowest chance of having any life-threatening disorders or handicapping problems.
If i was to have a healthy child i would not have him genetically engineered because i want my child to feel like its related to me not bought in some store. but on the other hand if my child was to have a disorder i might do it a favor and have it corrected without changing its looks or personality.
If I had the chance to choose the traits of my children, I would definitely. I have a lot of health problems like Diabetes in my family so I would make the chances and susceptibility of these genetic diseases much lower.
I would choose some traits, like ones that prevent health problems and disorders, but not ones that determine looks, personality, or intelligence. I think that is not really ethical to pre determine what your child is like, but if you are just preventing problems, it's ok.
I would want to see what my child's DNA is but not necessarily change traits. If my child had no disabilities I would let my child come out how it is. If my child had a disability i would have it fixed, if possible. I would not change any other traits. I would want my child to be able to participate in all activities but not change his/her appearance.
Definetely, if that's how natural borns were treated in that society, I would want to make sure my child got the best they could possibly get, not just better job opportunities or being more attractive, but to be more healthy and live longer.
If given the choice I would select specific traits for my child. Not necessarily all physical traits but I would choose traits that would make sure my child would be healthy and be able to live a good life.
If I could select traits for my child I wouldn't do out because I have no idea whay my child wants to do with their life so I wouldn't know if the traits I select would help or not
If I were in a world of genetically engineered children I would probably also select the traits of my child. I would want him/her to have the same opportunities everyone else has at that point in time. If there was race for the "perfect child" I don't think I would want to risk an unnatural birth.
I would not select for special traits such as height and looks but I would screen for diseases.. if that counts as a special trait then yes because i wouldn't want the child to grow up with a disease that could have been prevented.
I think it depends. If choosing the traits for my child was something commonly done, yeah, I'd probably do it. If it wasn't then I probably wouldn't. I know that I am easily swayed by society, just like most other people. Also, if it was commonly done there was probably a good reason for it. Thinking about it now, I think that choosing traits for a child is just weird and unnatural. Tampering with nature has gotten the world in trouble before.
I would give my child special characteristics but not specialize for a certain job, but I would give my child a better opportunity to get the things he wants by giving him better genes. Also I would keep his physical appearance the same so that he is still himself just a little better than others.
Yeah, as a parent, because I want my kid to be as smart and healthy and beautiful as possible. But as human being, no. When everybody is special, nobody is special. That we are not all equal makes us human.
I wouldn't give my child special characteristics because I would want them to be happy with who they are and not what they were made to be. Also, I wouldn't want to do this because my kid should be able to choose their job and plan their life for themselves. But I would definitely screen for diseases so that they don't grow up with a disease that could've been prevented.
No I wouldn't give my child handpicked characteristics because I wouldn't want to miss out on the experience of watching your child grow up by knowing exactly what's going to happen to them.
if i had a son I would give them some advancements but not all if someone is given everything from the beginning what do they have to motivate them? what can they strive to be if they are already perfect.. i would give him some, not many, genetic advancements but leave the rest of him
I would not completely specialize my child, but I would screen for diseases and give them some advancements so he/she can have opportunity's they otherwise wouldn't have.
I would most likely do it. I mean it's kind of messing with the order of evolution by changing something like that but to be able to make your child perfect would probably be more important to me.
Yes, I would select special traits. Why not? Because your tampering with nature? We already tamper with nature now, and if I am able to have the genetic peak in my child I would want to. For two reasons, one everyone else would do it so I wouldn't want my child to feel different and discriminated against like in GATTACA. Two if everyone did it, my child wouldn't be above everyone else, they would be the average.
ReplyDeleteI would not select special traits for my child if given the opportunity. I rather just let my child live his or her life and not have to worry about what disease they are going to get in the future, if diagnosed with one. Yeah it would be cool to decide what my child is going to look like, but I love surprises and wouldn't want to know what he/she was going to look like.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the same side with Sammy, so I wouldn't "geneticallly engineer" my children unless it's a life or death problem. I understand why some people might want to do this, but it all comes down to selfishness. It's being selfish to have the "perfect" child.
ReplyDeleteYes, I do feel like this is messing too much with nature. Nature is beautiful how it is. I would find my child beautiful just how he/she is solely because it is mine, and would find no reason to have made him/her more "perfect."
I wouldn't select special traits because as esther said, it's messing with nature, but also you wouldn't have the surprise of how your child looks when it's born and as it grows. Also, what happens happens. If they're diagnosed with a desease later in life then I would deal with it. I guess since it would be my baby, I'd want it to have the traits that it gets from each parent not some "specially selected" ones.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I'd genetically engineer my children given the chance. Part of the miracle of DNA and heredity is that your children are, in a sense, partly you, and tampering with the DNA takes that away. Growing up is about learning to "play the cards you're dealt". Everyone has things they don't like about themselves, and learning to love yourself in spite of these things is a crucial part of growing up. If we were all dealt a genetically engineered "perfect hand", I think everyone would actually miss out on important life experiences.
ReplyDeleteYes, I would give my child special traits if I had the power to. It would allow my child to do anything they would want to, and not be held back by disabilities that would be caused by a regular birth. Especially in an environment like GATTACA, they could be accepted by any organization they wanted.
ReplyDeleteI would not choose given traits for my child. I feel it is inhumane to take tampering with nature this far in changing the offspring. I also hate the idea of a future where everyone is perfect, and perfect becomes the new normal.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't choose special traits for my children because i want them to be unique. I wouldn't want to change their DNA becuase, like Elise said, it means that the children are not totally me and my spouse anymore. I don't want a genetically engeneered child, I want a child that is created based on my genetic information.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't genetically engineer my child because that would not be natural. If it were a life or death situation I still don't think I would do it, because it would still be unnatural. I agree with Esther that it seems selfish, because you want your child to be perfect. I think that perfection isn't meant to happen, because it doesn't happen naturally.
ReplyDeleteIf I were to have a child in the future and was given the choice to genetically change the child's special traits, I would refuse because adding special traits to a child wouldn't be natural. I think that the child should be born with traits from only both parents.
ReplyDeleteIf I were to have a child in the future and I were given the choice to give them special traits or even take away negative traits I would never do it. I would want them to be exactly who they are. If, say, the doctors say they are going to have bad eyesight when they turn fifteen, who knows, maybe getting glasses will be when they meet their first boyfriend or something. I don't want to mess up what they could have naturally. I feel it is immoral.
ReplyDeleteI would select certain health related traits for my child so they would be healthy and so they wouldn't have any disorders but I wouldn't give them traits that would make them stronger or smarter than a normal person.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want to select the traits of my children because i wouldn't want to know everything about my child before they were even born. Part of the fun would be finding out about them and it would be messing with nature to do it. I would want my child to be unique.
ReplyDeleteIf I were to have a child in the future and was given the choice to give them special trait I would do it for certain traits. For example I would do it for healh related traits so that the child is healthy and has less problems in the future. I would love to make my child's life easier. If I were to choose traits like physical appearance I wouldn't do it because I would want my child to look like me and look natural. I also wouldn't give my child traits that would make him stronger or smarter than other people because these are te things that you achieve. They're the things that you work on throughout your life. They also make the life more interesting and vibrant.
ReplyDeleteIf I had the choice to genetically choose how my child would look, I wouldnt want to. I would leave that to chance. But if I could get rid of a disorder or disease then I would for the sake of my child. But then again I agree with Steele in that if everyone is doing it I wouldn't want my child to feel different and to have the same discrimination as in the movie.
ReplyDeleteI probably wouldn't do that. I might try to make sure that my child isn't vulnerable to any diseases, but I wouldn't change anything else. I would feel really inhumane if I tried to give my kid "perfect" traits. Even though life might be a little harder for them without those special traits, I wouldn't want to tamper with nature. I agree with Claire when she says that perfection isn't natural. You should let each person be unique. I think that part of growing up is finding out what you're good at, or not good at, and building your own skills, not having them chosen for you.
ReplyDeleteIt is unfair and sad that in the movie GATTACA people are discriminated against if their parents didn't select certain traits for them, but I still wouldn't want to have a perfect child.
If it were possible to give my child certain special traits I would not do it because I believe it is better to let nature run its course. It would be wrong to make a child look a certain way just because you are afraid that the way the would naturally look would be undesirable.
ReplyDeleteWell, I dont accutly think I would, because the geneticaly moddifyed child would be strong, it would not truely be my child it would be the scientist's creations. Also the chance of getting diffrent genes and not knowing what color the child's eye color will be, or what they will look like is just the fun of parenting. Although not having to give birth would be a plus.
ReplyDeleteIf you could select special traits, I wouldn't, because its inhumane. However, if very early detection of a mutation was possible, I would probably change the traits so the baby won't have diseases.
ReplyDeleteI would not want to select the traits of my child if I could. I don't want to tamper with the universe and I feel like the traits my child would posses would be a little unnatural to me. If I could, I would try to make my child have no diseases so they could live a happy long life, but I also feel like that even if I let my child be born naturally and they ended up having a disease, I would accept that that was supposed to happen and learn to live with it, though it might not be easy. Also I like not knowing what my child would look like and having it be a surprise when they were born.
ReplyDeleteI probably wouldn't select the traits of my child unless they were at risk for a life-threatening or other disorder that would detrimentally affect their life; this would include Down's Syndrome and PKU, in fact most of the disorders we studied, but as far as characteristics and personality I would not.
ReplyDeleteI would select to have my child tested because then if something like gattaca ever happens my child won't be left out
ReplyDeleteI don't think that I would change my child's over-all appearence very much, like facial details and what not, but I might add something interesting like violet coloured eyes, but not too drastically different.
ReplyDeleteThe only trait I would choose to give my child would be left handedness, and that doesn't really effect them much. I would just want them to be more like me in that aspect. Other than that, I would not mess around with how they are meant to be. Your child is already the perfect balance of you and your partner.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want to do so, because even though the child would be exactly everything I want it to be, I wouldn't want that at all. I would want a surprise. Something I wouldn't expect. A trait, charateristic, whatever that's completely new.
ReplyDeleteI guess my opinion differs from many people here, but if I could choose for my child to have the best possible chances of survival and for them to live the best life they could, then I would. I wouldn't go as far as picking hair color, eye color, height, and the way my child would look, but I would definitely pick the child with the lowest chance of having any life-threatening disorders or handicapping problems.
ReplyDeleteIf i was to have a healthy child i would not have him genetically engineered because i want my child to feel like its related to me not bought in some store. but on the other hand if my child was to have a disorder i might do it a favor and have it corrected without changing its looks or personality.
ReplyDeleteIf I had the chance to choose the traits of my children, I would definitely. I have a lot of health problems like Diabetes in my family so I would make the chances and susceptibility of these genetic diseases much lower.
ReplyDeleteI would choose some traits, like ones that prevent health problems and disorders, but not ones that determine looks, personality, or intelligence. I think that is not really ethical to pre determine what your child is like, but if you are just preventing problems, it's ok.
ReplyDeleteI would want to see what my child's DNA is but not necessarily change traits. If my child had no disabilities I would let my child come out how it is. If my child had a disability i would have it fixed, if possible. I would not change any other traits. I would want my child to be able to participate in all activities but not change his/her appearance.
ReplyDeleteDefinetely, if that's how natural borns were treated in that society, I would want to make sure my child got the best they could possibly get, not just better job opportunities or being more attractive, but to be more healthy and live longer.
ReplyDeleteNo I won't, because I do not have the right to decide how the baby is going to be. Humans are not machines that we can make.
ReplyDeleteIf given the choice I would select specific traits for my child. Not necessarily all physical traits but I would choose traits that would make sure my child would be healthy and be able to live a good life.
ReplyDeleteIf I could select traits for my child I wouldn't do out because I have no idea whay my child wants to do with their life so I wouldn't know if the traits I select would help or not
ReplyDeleteIf I were in a world of genetically engineered children I would probably also select the traits of my child. I would want him/her to have the same opportunities everyone else has at that point in time. If there was race for the "perfect child" I don't think I would want to risk an unnatural birth.
ReplyDeleteI would not select for special traits such as height and looks but I would screen for diseases.. if that counts as a special trait then yes because i wouldn't want the child to grow up with a disease that could have been prevented.
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ReplyDeleteI think it depends. If choosing the traits for my child was something commonly done, yeah, I'd probably do it. If it wasn't then I probably wouldn't. I know that I am easily swayed by society, just like most other people. Also, if it was commonly done there was probably a good reason for it. Thinking about it now, I think that choosing traits for a child is just weird and unnatural. Tampering with nature has gotten the world in trouble before.
ReplyDeleteI would give my child special characteristics but not specialize for a certain job, but I would give my child a better opportunity to get the things he wants by giving him better genes. Also I would keep his physical appearance the same so that he is still himself just a little better than others.
ReplyDeleteYeah, as a parent, because I want my kid to be as smart and healthy and beautiful as possible. But as human being, no. When everybody is special, nobody is special. That we are not all equal makes us human.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't give my child special characteristics because I would want them to be happy with who they are and not what they were made to be. Also, I wouldn't want to do this because my kid should be able to choose their job and plan their life for themselves. But I would definitely screen for diseases so that they don't grow up with a disease that could've been prevented.
ReplyDeleteNo I wouldn't give my child handpicked characteristics because I wouldn't want to miss out on the experience of watching your child grow up by knowing exactly what's going to happen to them.
ReplyDeleteif i had a son I would give them some advancements but not all if someone is given everything from the beginning what do they have to motivate them? what can they strive to be if they are already perfect.. i would give him some, not many, genetic advancements but leave the rest of him
ReplyDeleteI would not completely specialize my child, but I would screen for diseases and give them some advancements so he/she can have opportunity's they otherwise wouldn't have.
ReplyDeleteI would most likely do it. I mean it's kind of messing with the order of evolution by changing something like that but to be able to make your child perfect would probably be more important to me.
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