So, we bring up this topic about the potential benefits of using Genetic testing to better our lives only to be reminded of the pitfalls that also come with it. As The Grim Reaper pointed out, Gattaca dealt with this topic rather extensively. However, I'm not sure that this will even be a choice to not put ourselves forward for this sort of testing.
Genetic testing is being fairly "hip" these days with companies like 23 and Me offering their services. Even Ancestry.com will offer the use for help with your genealogy tree. There are major dangers with freely giving over DNA to these companies though. They build up genetic databases and under current US law, our DNA does not technically belong to the individual but to the research team that "borrowed" it for "research" purposes.
We can get scared about it or we can work to come up with intelligent legislation to afford some protections to ourselves in our respective countries.
On the plus side, we can get away with Eugenics under some-what less than ethical apology.
I highly doubt that the movie is being heralded as unfunny or even a failed movie in the US. The movie was also released online which means that people did not need to go to the limited number of theaters it was released in to go see it. Just about everyone I know, myself included, have watched the movie and found it to be hilarious. We all watched it online.
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So, we bring up this topic about the potential benefits of using Genetic testing to better our lives only to be reminded of the pitfalls that also come with it. As The Grim Reaper pointed out, Gattaca dealt with this topic rather extensively. However, I'm not sure that this will even be a choice to not put ourselves forward for this sort of testing.
Genetic testing is being fairly "hip" these days with companies like 23 and Me offering their services. Even Ancestry.com will offer the use for help with your genealogy tree. There are major dangers with freely giving over DNA to these companies though. They build up genetic databases and under current US law, our DNA does not technically belong to the individual but to the research team that "borrowed" it for "research" purposes.
We can get scared about it or we can work to come up with intelligent legislation to afford some protections to ourselves in our respective countries.
On the plus side, we can get away with Eugenics under some-what less than ethical apology.
I highly doubt that the movie is being heralded as unfunny or even a failed movie in the US. The movie was also released online which means that people did not need to go to the limited number of theaters it was released in to go see it. Just about everyone I know, myself included, have watched the movie and found it to be hilarious. We all watched it online.