Right or wrong?

Blonde hair, blue eyes, skinny, smart, white, hard working, and successful are the necessities to the “perfect” son/daughter. Parents just want their children to fit in, and not have to go through the every day struggles of being a child. How ever, is this “perfect” child really realistic? Yes, there is the possibility of genetic engineering and being able to create your son/daughter to the specific requirements you want. How ever, because of the persona, societal, and economic issues that will arise due to genetic engineering, parents should not be given this particular option in hopes of having the “perfect” child.

“You’re fat… you’re ugly… you’re dumb… you are totally not cool…” are just a few of the horrible phrases that children hear on a day-to-day basis while growing up. No one wants to be spoken to or treated this way, and no parents’ wishes this upon their children. Unfortunately this is just a part of childhood, and how children act until they are taught better. I know that many people think and feel that if you could eliminate this part of life, and remove all the pain and embarrassment of being made fun of causes that their lives would be much better. How ever, I believe that getting through all these struggles and horrible comments is what makes a person stronger and have more confidence and self-esteem. If you take that away from a child, then how are they going to become strong and feel better about themselves? No, this does not always work, as seen in the children that cannot take being made fun of any more and either take it out on themselves (suicide) or on others (school shootings). There are some children, though, that use being made fun of and being treated unfairly as a high, and they do every thing in their power to prove all the “bullies” wrong and become the most successful people in our world today.

When the idea of genetically engineering children is brought up the following question always follows, who would have the right to do this and how much would it cost? If this turns out to be a very expensive process then only the wealthy would be able have this as an option. It would be another thing that the wealthy would be able to do/have that the non wealthy would not, and their children would be the ones to suffer from it. Parents think that there is too much discrimination going on now days with everyone being born the same way, that would change dramatically. Those children that are not genetically engineered would be looked down upon, even more so than normally. They would not be seen as “perfect” and they would not have the specialties that the genetically engineered children have. There would not only be the normal discrimination against the disabled, the colored, the poor and more, but also against who is “perfect” and who is “savage” (as they say in A Brave New World). If there were a cost issue, which there probably would be unless it leas to eugenics (which is just topic more horrible than this), then you would have half the population “perfect” and the other population “not perfect” and that would cause many societal and economic issues. What would happen to those “not perfect” children, and their future? Would they be out of jobs because the “perfect” children are able to do it themselves? It would cause complete chaos. In A Brave New World we see how the genetically engineered people treat John, they find him to be WEIRD. They thought they were so much better than him, and they could not accept him for him, but only as a science experiment almost. Unfortunately that is what I see the outcome of genetic engineering as.

We live in a country where there are so many people that cannot even afford to buy groceries every week, let alone genetically engineer their children as the wealthy people could possibly be doing, so they are going to be looked down upon as savages and not be accepted. I believe that parents having the right to genetically engineering their children will just cause more discrimination against their children and more struggles for them growing up. Parents need to just accept how their children are born, naturally, and what they will grow up to become. They should not mess with something that is suppose to be natural.