We just finished watching Gattaca with Ethan Hawke and Jude Law this week, and I made me think that maybe what happens in this movie is very plausible in the next couple decades. The whole concept of eugenics and the designing the "perfect human" is quite bothersome, but at the same time awesome on what the future hold. It is mind boggling to think that in the next couple decades us humans ( god children) could be inferior to the perfect human beings created by different traits which would make them possibly perfect. Even though, it is scary to think that these perfect beings could be created soon; although,there is already stem cell research and project (create the perfect DNA strand, by extracting that bad strand and adding the good strand) being done.
I feel like Vincent (who wanted to always go to titan but was initially not allowed to leave Earth, because he was a "god child"), is going to be a similar issue in the future. If we do create these perfect people, then it will lead people to do ANYTHING to be as good as these perfect human beings. As a result of that thought, would It really be a good idea to create a person that is so far beyond normal capabilities? I think not initially. Rather, we should gradually do it, so when the oldest genetically altered people get older the younger will take over and not have to cause conflict with not that of fortunate genetically altered beings.
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