Tampering With The D.N.A.

[PunkMaister]

Originally Posted by Tsyal Makto

This.



That flower looks incredible! What's holding up production of those things?

Interesting times ahead for science.

Those are GENETIC monstrosities for crying out loud!

[Isard]

Originally Posted by PunkMaister

Those are GENETIC monstrosities for crying out loud!

You cant deny people the right to hold absolute sovereignty over their own bodies.

[PunkMaister]

Originally Posted by Aihwa

You cant deny people the right to hold absolute sovereignty over their own bodies.

This is not a Tattoo we are talking about we would be creating another species or multiple species on the face of the Earth and different species fight sooner or latter.

[Isard]

Originally Posted by PunkMaister

This is not a Tattoo we are talking about we would be creating another species or multiple species on the face of the Earth and different species fight sooner or latter.

Considering we're already such a kind and caring species that fight among ourselves regularly, I don't see an issue there.

[PunkMaister]

Originally Posted by Aihwa

Considering we're already such a kind and caring species that fight among ourselves regularly, I don't see an issue there.

So the answer for you is to create more than one sentient species so they all fight each other to extinction? Great plan...

[Spock]

Originally Posted by PunkMaister

So the answer for you is to create more than one sentient species so they all fight each other to extinction? Great plan...

No... the more successful species will always emerge, it's called Gause's competitive exclusion principle.

[PunkMaister]

Originally Posted by Spock

No... the more successful species will always emerge, it's called Gause's competitive exclusion principle.

That applies to Animals not 2 or more warring sentient species fighting for dominance over a planet with WMDs and all sort of nasty weapons out-there.

Not too mention there is untold danger in tampering with DNA like that. In the long run it could very well spell the demise of our species as a whole as well. This has been explored in Science fiction too many times. In fact there is a really good Outer Limits episode just about this scenario. A group of university students and a professor discover a ship that has been buried for millions of years, get inside it and get trapped in it and at the end they find the ship is from the future, a future in which intense genetic engineering and modification led to humanity's extinction so they made that ship to bring back a group of humans and use their DNA to kick-start humanity once more.

[HiddenObserver]

Originally Posted by Fighter-of-Wars

All of this stuff is neat, but it won't be available to us, not with any reasonable price tag anyways,

I agree with you there and apart from cost, here's why...

It is imposable to modify something after cell division has began because the persons immune system will detect the modified cells as a foreign organism and attack them, causing organ rejection. unless they are happy to spend the rest of there lives on immune system suppressants. Meaning this technology will not be available to our generation!

Originally Posted by Fighter-of-Wars

I can see tampering with DNA to worm out diseases and genetic problems and such like mental illnesses, cancer, and other problems and I think that would be good, but I think that is as far as it should go-IMHO.

Giving a mention to two other uses for this technology stated in previous posts

Using it to create a super-organism, while it will be possible in the future, is quite amoral, dangerous and not to mention costly and splicing an unborn child to create a different race would only turn a healthy human baby into a walking freakshow that has a greatly reduced chance of survival from both there own genetics and other humans.