On November 26, 2018, a gene-edited baby was born.
This kind of anti-human and anti-moral behavior that has not been reported to the relevant departments has actually been accompanied by the birth of a baby.
After seeing the news, words like "shocked" or "thunderbolt" can no longer describe my mood.
With this thing, this 21-year-old movie jumped into my eyes.
Let's talk about this from the movie today.
In the near future, science and technology determine the fate, and genes trump everything. Vincent, who was born naturally, was judged "myopia, heart disease, and only 30 years old. This is a life destined to fail and die prematurely" when he came to the world. His parents had to use genetic technology to recreate I have a younger brother who has excellent genes in all aspects.
In this era of personal customization of genes, you can choose hair color, eye color, skin color, height, IQ, etc. Needless to say, you can even decide the size of your child's penis. Oops
Genetically tailored people can be more successful than naturally conceived people because they have more opportunities, resources, social acceptance, and so on. People born naturally, on the other hand, are assigned to live in a specific area, can only work in low-status jobs, and even be labeled as "God's child". There is a huge divide between social classes.
Can genes really decide everything? When his brother was 8 years old, Vincent, who was already taller than 10 years old, always swam faster than Vincent every time he swam. Vincent, who had dreamed of an astronaut since he was a child, although the whole family disliked him, he never gave up his dreams and life because of his defective genes, and never gave up on himself. He read a lot of books and did a lot of training. One day, He swam past his younger brother, who had good genes, and his younger brother passed out due to exhaustion while swimming. Not to mention, many years later, the younger brother with good genes just became a police officer, while the older brother with naturally bred but inferior genes has really become an astronaut out of ten thousand, traveling in space with a manned rocket.
And the other has a more perfect gene, that is, Jerome, who was impersonated by Vincent, with an excellent IQ, a strong physique, and even an immortal gene. Such a perfect genetic customization, but swimming still only won the world runner-up. He must be unhappy, I think, not just because he won the runner-up, but because he found out that there is still something he can't do with perfect immortal genes. He must have no hope for life, so he chose to commit suicide.
There is also a detail. The director of the project against the manned rocket launch was killed, to be precise, brutally tortured - the murderer smashed his head and face to the point that he couldn't recognize it, and the police could only rely on their badges. Identify. And the murderer turned out to be Vincent's boss, who had absolutely no violence in his genes. What an irony!
So, can genes really be everything? Obviously, the movie has stated that it can't. Because we are human, we not only have a body, which can be genetically customized, but we also have a soul, and the soul has no genes and cannot be edited artificially.
Just like what Jerome said to Vincent: I only lent you my body, you lent me your dream. This genius with perfect genes and an immortal body finally wore his silver medal and set himself on fire, ending his tragic life.
It is said that many people regarded this film as an inspirational film, because although Vincent entered the company with the identity of Jerome, but to truly become the one-in-a-million astronaut, the ghost knows what he went through, how much he suffered, How much sweat. Years later, Vincent met his younger brother again. The younger brother was not convinced and wanted to swim with Vincent again. After swimming far away, his younger brother became afraid because he could not see the shore and was about to give up. Vincent said, "You keep asking me how to do it." Yeah, that's how I did it, I never save anything for swimback. And when I saw this, I was indeed moved to tears. (I really want to complain about the so-called "good genes" here, because my brother was so exhausted and fainted at this time.)
Speaking of gene-edited babies, in fact, the movie has already told everyone everything. Will the gene-edited children be successful? must be happy? And a child born of nature will definitely be subservient to others? Not necessarily. In particular, everything has risks. The doctor's child in the movie is the product of editing mistakes. The doctor is very kind. Even if the editing mistakes are made and the genes are defective, he still leaves the child. But just imagine that if gene editing technology were popularized, everyone would make a gene-edited baby, but they made a mistake. When the mistake was discovered, the baby was already 7 months old. I can't imagine how many people would choose to keep this. Baby, how many people will choose to kill 7 months of life in the womb. 7 months, early birth is a life, if not, it is murder at all.
Therefore, gene-editing babies is fundamentally anti-human and anti-moral mad scientific behavior, and should be strictly prohibited.
Further, if gene editing technology is popularized, it must be very expensive, which means that only the rich can "enjoy" this technology, while the poor can only continue to breed naturally. That is to say, the genes of the rich will be better and they will have more social resources, while the poor can only continue to "survive the fittest". If things go on like this, the distribution of resources will become more uneven, the gap between the rich and the poor will become larger and the gap between classes will become larger and larger. There will also be a huge irreparable gap, and what crazy things will happen at that time, I can't imagine.
We are human, just human. The creation of man is a matter of God, please do not play God. Otherwise, once Pandora's box is opened, it must be human beings who will suffer the consequences.
ps The picture below is the last paragraph of the movie when it was released in Japan.
May the world be a better place because of tolerance!
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