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Sarah
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Genetic engineering
January 12, 2006 - 08:54 AM
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Things, in my opinion, have been really slow on the forums. Here is a topic i think everyone would have a say in. Genetic engineering, including cloning and stem cell research. Whats ur stance? Could be politically, socially, ethically, and/or spiritually based or whatever u want to say pertaining to that topic. Am awaiting to ur see views.
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Anu maheshwari
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Re: Genetic engineering
February 24, 2006 - 01:46 AM
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i am against the idea of cloning. i am just a bit suspicious of its negative capabilities especially that of human cloning. it sounds realy dangerous and scary and basically useless !!!
i also dont see the rationale behind going for all kinds of genetic calisthenics to have children of one's own "Blood". we are already on the verge of a population explosion and this idea doesnt do anything to help. why don't people just go for adoption ????? why do they have so much reservation against adoption?
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Burhan
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Re: Genetic engineering
July 4, 2006 - 11:19 AM
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Genetic Engineering is especislly good when it is used in the interest of humanity. Almost all things in the world even knowledge have both positive and negative aspects. for example nuclear technology is being used for treatment of cancer etc.
This is the users who will make use of its bad or good effects.
Genetic Engineering is I think the only branch in which even the developing countries are making remarkable advances. Many diseases will finally find their treatment because of genetiic Engineering.
This post was edited on: 2006-07-08 at 08:43 AM by: maverickhorasius
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e.sum
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Re: Genetic engineering
July 4, 2006 - 12:05 PM
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Hm, good question that could go in many different directions! One thing to consider is that there are various ways of using genetic engineering that ppl can be unaware of. For example, manipulating genes is one of the ways scientists create viral vaccines. maverickhorasius, is this what you were referring to?
Other points to consider might be:
- issues re: patenting genetic information and actual living organisms or parts of organisms
- the economic/social/political context within which genetic engineering will function (e.g. through public or private funding? In universities? In corporations? Who will regulate and monitor safety standards etc?)
- what alternative methods of improving health, wellness, nutrition etc are we possibly ignoring if we choose to focus on genetic engineering as the main solution for health problems?
Since genetic engineering is already happening, it could be an interesting exercise to examine and evaluate real corporations using such practices in one's own time e.g. one corporation that has drawn a lot of press is Monsanto . btw, pls take note that I am not suggesting that Monsanto is meant to represent all corporations using biotechnology and I realize it is an example which skews to the negative. But there is a lot of formal documentation on this company from reliable journalistic sources (and it's the only one I can think of at present lol). Perhaps someone more knowledgable can offer more examples.
This post was edited on: 2006-07-04 at 12:31 PM by: esum
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Hann
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Re: Genetic engineering
August 2, 2006 - 04:16 PM
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hm... that's a really broad topic, so I'll split it up. As with all cutting-edge technologies though, there's always the potential for abuse - and I think it serves humanity better to grasp the calf by the horns rather than try to deal with the bull after it grows up.
I'll talk about gene therapy, which I think is a good thing. I don't see why using it to treat diseases should be any different from popping a pill to get rid of your migraine - it's a disease, we use whatever means necessary to treat it and minimize human suffering. On the flip side, of course, would be "gene augmentation", in which we expand our definition of disease and start using gene therapy to treat everything under the sun. Of that I am ambivalent - I'm definitely not comfortable with a Brave New World, but I realize that the argument I used to support gene therapy above could be applied to this as well - aka less beautiful people could claim that they were thus disadvantaged and clamor for beauty genes or something. I don't know. I guess this is where we get into the gray fuzzy limits of medicine.
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Cherrie
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Re: Genetic engineering
August 6, 2006 - 08:00 PM
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anuriandima84 wrote:
i am against the idea of cloning...why do they have so much reservation against adoption?
Cloning does not involve just the duplication of an organism, as is the common misunderstanding. Cloning is used in laboratories around the world as a technique to study cellular biology and is also a way to test new drugs for various diseases. The applications and benefits of cloning are numerous. But as someone has already said, cloning itself is neutral. It's people abusing the technology that will throw it into negativity.
Also - regarding adoption... I don't think it is necessarily a problem against adopting other people's children (though Darwin and Dawkins may have something to say about that), it's just the simple freedom of being able to have children (for different people it means different things, for example, some think it's the ultimate symbol of love between two people). It's the freedom of being able to choose to have children.
Further, infertility or the inability to have children is a condition ( like obesity, diabetes or cancer), that affects 1 in 6 couples and people should have the right to seek treatment.
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