Should Genetic engineering be used to prevent diseases?
No. Simply because as with all animals evolution allows us to adapt to our environments and other things that may effect the existance of humans. If we were able to engineer everyone to be immune to any disease, any condition we would end up, eventually, with a body that does not evolve as it no longer thinks it has to. Therefore, we would end up creating greater harm than good, just as the over prescription of anti-biotics is going to do over the next few years as the diseases that used to be trated by them become immune to the treatment. Also, we can only justify our own lives by the lives of others. If you are unable to do this due to everyone being equal then the whole concept of the human condition becomes redundant – we will all be the same, have the same attributes e.t.c. No outstanding sports people as we would all be able to compete at the same level… welcome to a colony of ants!
