Atlantic: The Case Against Perfection Essay

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Throughout the years, scientists have always been inventing new technology and new developments (maybe just say technology and leave out developments) to improve society. For example, one of their concepts to improve society is the development of genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is the modification of the characteristics of an organism by manipulating its genetic material. Genetic engineering however, has been a concept that has been debatable (too many “has been” just say ‘a debatable concept..’) for many years leaving society to be fluctuant about the effects that can occur in humanity, such as the separation in society between the rich and the poor. The poor would be classified as the natural born humans which would mean they would …show more content…

Due to this it is said that with genetic engineering a person can be born with no diseases or sickness that are passed down in a family. However, the idea of not being able to immune the human body to certain diseases may seem of a great help to society but yet it still has its risks. For instance, a modified human can be chosen the genes of not having alzheimer's or other mental sickness but would the disease eventually come back throughout the process of aging? Make the question its own sentence Michael J. Sandel, a political philosopher and professor at Harvard university, wrote the article “The Atlantic: The Case Against Perfection” for the Atlantic Magazine on April of 2004. In his work, Sandel claims how not even with the newest technology that is being constructed will cure any disease which means that not even the concept of genetic engineering can cure diseases or make them vanish. “Unlike a treatment for alzheimer's, it would cure no disease; but insofar as restored capacities a person once passed, it would have a remedial aspect” (Sandel 12).(what happened to (Qtd.in)) It does not matter how advanced genetic engineering is, the diseases and sickness will still occur in humans because that is part of living life and how the human body should be

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