However, one must acknowledge that, although great medical knowledge can save lives in the future, it can also destroy lives in the present. Therefore, genetic engineering can be detrimental to the development of our society. Washington D.C. The question, then, is whether or not humanity should begin the process of engineering future generations of human beings by technological design in the laboratory. With human genetic engineering, we get something and we give up something. In return for securing our own physical well-being we are forced to accept the idea of reducing the human species to a technologically designed product.
Genetic engineering poses the most fundamental of questions.
Jeremy Rifkin's questions, although unanswerable need to be grappled with to ensure the safety of future generations.