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Some Ethics

Do you think we should use molecular genetic biology to make Olympic sprinters, faster?

Do you think we should use stem cell technology to assist footballers to do greater things in the World Cup?

Do you think we should use genome manipulation, to make footballers like Ronaldo or Messi, play for longer so that we can watch them for longer?

I think that the majority of people would say no, but here’s the rub.

A couple of weeks ago, for the first time at the opticians, I was told I have dry macular the generation. Left eye. Only a tiny little bit. Nothing to be concerned about!

It does increase the risk of work macular degeneration (which my dad has, and which has resulted in him having more than 40 injections into his eyes), if you’re offering me stem cells now, to fix it, do you think I would take it?

If you told me one of my children have a life limiting disease that genome alteration could help, would I take it?

If molecular biological advancement would let me spend more time with my wife into older age, would I pay for that?

The tricky part of the advancements in the bio-tech revolution is that we cannot have the bottom 3 and exclude the top 3.

It’s true that perhaps Ethics will become the battlefield, upon which future of humanity is decided.

We’re decades away from superhumans, but the crazy paradox is, that they are not invading from out of space, like in The Avengers.

We’re building them and creating them ourselves. If we choose to.

By Colin Campbell on 19/08/19 18:00