Perfect Child Research Paper

Perfect Child – Against

Humans are always trying to achieve something they’ll never have, something that is so blatantly unachievable that it’s strange that they’re even trying.

This is- perfection.

Perfect skin, perfect hair, perfect eyes, perfect society, they’re always trying to reach this state.

And now they’re starting to move onto: Perfect Children.

This means that a parent is able to genetically modify their child to meet their requirements for what is considered “perfect”. Whether it be no mental disability or illness, high intelligence, no physical conditions, etc.

This, however, should not be the case.

There is a ton of times where this selective breeding has turned out bad for non-human species. For example: Pugs; this dog breed is susceptible to nasal and respiratory infection and disease because they have been selectively bred to have a short nose. Dachshunds (or Sausage Dogs) are another example of this being the

case, with them now suffering from spinal conditions due to them being bred for shorter and shorter legs. Why should this pain and misery be the same for humans if it ever ends up like this?
In other aspects, we should give our children the chance to be truly themselves.

Why should we care if they have more or less chromosomes, if they have or are a carrier of an “undesirable” genotype or phenotype, if they have physical, mental or psychological conditions, about their pedigree or the punnet square? We should let our children be themselves instead of better versions of their parents. We should give them the chance to pick their careers, their education, their lives, instead of it being entirely dependent on their genes, the chance to truly be an individual and stand out from the crowd. This is world we should be striving to create, not a world where everyone is nearly the exact same as each-other. Because perfection is entirely subjective, is it not? An art critique might consider Picasso perfection, while another might consider The Sistine Chapel perfection, and a parent might consider their mentally and physically disabled child to be perfect, while another might consider a perfectly healthy and smart child to be

perfection.
We are going to run into a loophole here, there is no set definition of perfection, like previously stated, the idea of perfection is entirely subjective, we will never reach perfect if everyone has a different opinion on what perfect is, it just isn’t the way it works, it’ll never be the way it works.
And if we truly reached a state of perfection, we as a species will never go anywhere, there will be no advancements in medicine, in technology, in education, in anything. Because if we ever reached a state of perfection, we’ll not bother to advance anything as we would consider that perfect as well.
There’s also the problem with morality. Creating the perfect child is, in essence, the same as animal testing. If this doesn’t end up in humans not advancing further, it will result in scientists cruelly breeding “perfect” children for lab experiments. We will have humans live their entire lives in labs, with no way to go out, and play, and explore, because of us wanting to play god. This is inhumane, and this should not be the case.
So in conclusion, we as a species should not be able to genetically modify and/or alter our children in any way. We’ve already seen the negatives of selective breeding in the animal world, the nasal diseases of the pug, and the spinal conditions of the dachshunds. The fact that the entire definition of “perfect” is subjective, and depends on person to person. That if we did reach perfection, we’d either never advance further or scientists will end up using human children as laboratory experiments. And that is why humanity should never strive to ever develop the idea of a “perfect child”.