Interview

In the last CM class, we practiced to do the interview.The interview question was "If you could genetically engineer your child, would you do so? and why?"

I interviewed to Mio, and her answer was "No". Her reason for this answer was that because it was unmoral. She said however there is a chance to avoid desease, she wouldn't prefer to choose her child. She said she would love her child no matter how much her child had defects. She also said that if we allow engineering genes at this level, we will have to allow more genitic engineering. According to her, since it's difficult to decide where to stop, we should not allow all the genetic engineering.

In my opinion, I would choose to engineer the gene if I had choices, in order to avoid deseases. Same as Mio, I would love my child no matter he/she had defects, but I want my child to be healthy as much as possible.
However my preference is different with Mio, I agree to her idea that it'll be difficult to decide the line. The development of technologies require to consider a lot of problems.

My interest in Bioethics

I'm interested in cloning, reprogenetics, organ donation, etc. The issues that relate to humans.

When considering the balance between the development of technologies and the harm, it is difficult to decide which is better or worse. But the time may come when we have to decide our posision. By this winter term project, I would like to consider these issues deeply to be close to the better solution.