Master Race

Ever since I was a young child my parents have told me they want nothing but the best for me. This is a goal set by many parents for their children. Through technology and advances in science today, our society is faced with a difficult question; is it the right of the parents to genetically design their children, in order to create best possible opportunities for that child? No, by allowing genetic engineering to take place, it opens up doors for people to play God, eliminate the family system, as well as the creating a master race. Science goes too far, when people are created by human beings and not by God.

Adolf Hitler was out to create the master race. The master race was a group of people who were worthy to live and prosper throughout the world. This race was to have blond hair and blue eyes. All of the individuals who did not have those characteristics were executed. In order to achieve this goal, Hitler did many experiments on identical twins. He was fascinated by them. They were, he believed, the link to how he could start his master race. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s are responsible for killing approximately 11 million people. If only genetic engineering was around in Hitler’s time, could you imagine the devastation? History is taught in school, to learn from the past. Hitler and the Nazi’s are not the only example that we can learn from, Aldous Huxley’s satire Brave New World is another. In this community based society, there are no families, mother and father are curse words, and people are created, not born. Yet, in this world almost everyone is perfectly happy and healthy.

Today we have the ability to make people have blond hair and blue eyes, as well as have the ability for create people. Creating people does have some positives; scientists can eliminate diseases and possibilities of cancer from unborn embryos. This is a huge scientific breakthrough. Cancer is a horrible sickness that faces our society today with no cure. However, a lot of cancer patients believe it to be a test, and when they walk away from the experience they appreciate the value of life more. “Life is what you make of it” God gives us challenges to overcome that make us stronger in the end. By having humans create babies we are playing God with few regulations on the process as Nancy Gibbs author of “Wanted: Someone to Play God” describes, “It’s a good thing that most doctors are principled professionals, since there is nothing to stop them from implanting 10 embryos in a woman hoping to give birth to a softball team”.

Allowing parents or doctors to pick the genetics of their children is a very scary topic. Both sides of the story must be looked at and weighted. In the end the harmful side effects of allowing parents to genetically design their children outweigh the benefits.