The concept of designer babies is a very controversial topic. Some say it is primarily beneficial because it can improve and heal, but others would say the opposite because they consider it unethical and ultimately causing problems within society. Most parents would like the best for their children, so "improving them" or "making them better" makes sense. The school a child attends and the hobbies they take part in can be choices made by a parent, which in turn hopefully improve the child's life. Genetic engineering could become common practice and be another choice for parents to make, but is it simply overkill? Improving people would create an overall better society, right? If everyone were very intelligent, the human race as a whole would benefit from advances in virtually everything. Entertainment, transportation, and medicine, among a great deal of other things, could be improved dramatically if there were more people capable of doing these things. A world full of generally more capable people would be able to do much more. Many unwanted, serious and debilitating diseases, genetic disorders and disabilities can be avoided through the creation of tailor-made children. A child's quality of life would increase dramatically if they avoided Down syndrome, deformities or heart disease, for example. In some ways, it's not that different from hearing aids, medications for an illness, or chemotherapy for cancer, but on a larger scale and at an earlier stage in someone's life, before it even really begins. Some people argue that changing genes means changing who people are, which they consider "wrong," but genes aren't exactly the only things that make up a person anyway. The way they grow and their surroundings also make people...... middle of paper ......abies is similar but not as directly hateful; choosing the people we believe are "best" and "right". If everyone were the same, biodiversity would suffer, with groups of people around the world created to be all the same, but no different from other groups. Genetic engineering is an incredibly complex topic. If someone makes a mistake, it could have consequences for the next generations of humans. In conclusion, and in my personal opinion, genetic engineering could lead to a technically better and more advanced world despite suffering from profound moral downfalls. The main question that causes discussion seems to be whether artificial superiority is a valid alternative to nature. It might work in society if people only used it for things like escaping cancer, but if a new social class formed or people started creating super humans, it would definitely be a problem.