Oral Bac Anglais - Idea of Progress : Designer Babies
Publié le 03/11/2015
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Intro :
The idea of progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change , a technical, scientific or social advance which contributes to making the world a better place. It could be a scientific progress as medical advances. A technological progress like advances in communication with the creation of social media in internet as Facebook. Or Social progress like the idea of liberty, freedom, and democracy. We chose to study the Scientific Progress. But What are the Scientists Progress ? Scientists progress are medical advances, cures for illnesses, cloning, performance enhancing drugs, genetically modified organisms. We chose to handle the notion of progress through the genetically modified organisms with designers babies. After having studied several documents on this theme, we wanted to answer the following question : Should we allow genetic screening ? Designer babies are definitely a change from the \"old-fashioned\" way in which you couldn't choose your babies traits. Now, there's been an evolution. We can wonder if it's an improvement or not.
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Trait selection can be a service, it sounds like a business, a transaction, a deal.
Pr oviding people with a service could be positive. The problem is that no everybody would
agree.
Even I have trouble setting a limit.
Think it can become bad, when it stops become non
medical.
It definitely sounds bad, unethical when doctor offer to craft a baby. - In a r ecent
U.S.
survey of 999 people who sought genetic counseling, a majority said they supported
prenatal genetic tests for the elimination of serious diseases — 56% supported using them to
counter blindness and 75% for mental retardation.
More provocatively, about 10% of
respondents said they would want genetic testing for athletic ability, while 10% voted for
improved height.
Nearly 13% backed the approach to select for superior intelligence.
Do parents want to predetermine the sex of their children? Appare ntly they do, One
study indicates that 36 percent of parents would select the sex of their child if given the
opportunity.
Moreover, this study also show that a substantial majority of parents would
choose a mal offspring.
So, the sex selection through artificial insemination may dramatically
upset the natural balance of things.
We are in a society that eliminate "the crippled" , people not intelligent or healthy
enough.
The Great thing in life is that there is diversity and we can evolve.
There are
sur prises, opportunities, chances. Without diversity, w e will be in a world, in which all the
people would be similar: intelligent, in good health, pretty...
Conclusion :
Progress is change and we can't co ntrol it.
It's unpredictable unstoppable.
The
problem is the way people use it.
We would need a world organization to "control" this.
Designer babies can be qualified of an improvement or not.
Nonetheless, It's definitely a
controversial issue. To my mind, Think it can become bad when it stops being m edical , when
we will use it to select non medical traits. .
It definitely sounds bad, u nethical when doctor
offer to design a baby ..
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- Oral anglais: Idea of progress / Co,sumer society
- Oral d'anglais : The idea of progress
- Idea of Progress - Designer Babies
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