genetic engineering a boom or bane
“Genetic engineering research should be abandoned altogether given the potential for its exploitation. ... Man has already produced new food crops by the genetic manipulation of plants. ... Scores of other medicine for the treatment of kidney cancer, haemophilia, anaemia, whopping cough are produced by genetic engineering. ... Genetic engineering is beneficial in so far as it enables us to live better lives and have enough food and improved treatment, but the advance of genetic engineering has raised certain thorny ethical questions. ... Should genetic testing be mandatory and should people be tested against their will? ... If genetic testing is made mandatory, there will be discrimination against those who harbour genetic diseases. Marriage prospects can also be affected by genetic testing. It is said that we all have four or five genes screwed up and a perfect genetic being as a mate may not be found. ... While aptitudes, personality types and obesity have genetic roots, to equate behaviour with genes may not be right because genes are only one ingredient in the mix. Some studies on the genetic link have been flawed. ... The genetic root of behaviour is to lead to interminable controversy that concerns the issue of race and IQ.