We are in the year 2020 right now. Science and technology are moving at an extremely rapid pace. With the speed that it is moving at we don’t have enough time to stop and think if this is right. Dalai Lama Brings this up in his article he wrote called Ethics and the New Genetics. In this article he describes to us how If we change the genetic makeup of people numerous ethical questions arise from it and how with society respond to all of these issues. Too many questions arise from gene mutations that cannot be answered yet. 

Thesis: There are too many issues that arise from gene mutations related to ethics and Also accessibility. 

One thing that is great about this world is that it’s so diverse. There are many different cultures and habits people have that help make them unique in their own way. But then gene mutations get brought up. Everyone in this world wants to have “the perfect baby”. It’s understanding why people want that. The things that people love most are there children who they raise to be either great men or women. But what if gene mutation implications came into play? A lot of different people would want to make the perfect baby. In different cultures a lot of the perfect babies could turn out very similar to one another, and then another question arises: Where’s the diversity in society now? How can we be our own person if everyone’s genetic makeup is all so similar?

Although Not most scientists may think alike some may say gene editing is beneficial. They think that it could be very helpful in life to find diseases hidden in genes early and try and get rid of the bad gene. Also they believe that Gene editing can get rid of a hereditary disease when a baby is an embryo and not even close to being born. But then again this goes back to ethics. Why maybe try to edit genes in young people and embryos when they caould possibly find a cure for the particular disease in the up coming years. Also when the baby is an embryo there’s no consent of doing the editing and also we don’t know what the long term implications are. It’s all just too soon at this point we do not know enough about gene editing to be able to do it quite yet.