Paul Knoepfler : The ethical dilemma of designer babies

TED 2015
Paul Knoepfler : The ethical dilemma of designer babies  (transcript)
Summary
I didn't know what designer babies are and I was very surprised that we have to still ready for the coming designer babies revolution.
Designer babies mean to create genetically modified people who are upgraded.
They can be altered physical appearances and be eliminated the risk of auto-immune diseases. They are incredibly intelligent, beautiful, tall, athletic and healthy. They have lower health care costs. Just they are with upgrades and kids who have no genetic modification are called naturals. In fact, there is no law on this yet in many countries, thus you could do it in theory. Then the speaker tells us that governments might start accepting this because GM ( genetically modified) child is healthy and it expects lower care costs. He thinks that we need to put a hold on this because it definitely has negative consequences that people don't tell, but there are many people who don't disagree with him. He also said to educate and engage with the public and people. We have to talk about this more because the public hasn't known about it well.
However, I think that if people know about this well, many people want to start doing, even if it's not allowed. Probably, people don't feel fear because all people become GM. I don’t use it, though.

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