persuasive-genetic engineering

natural life processes, tampering/faults

life will have no meaning or value

investments, costs and things that should be invested in instead

Genetic engineering, with its promises to lengthen life spans, sounds like a godsend to modern society. In reality this would end in worse than for the better. Experimenting with unnatural inventions will tamper with people's bodies and may even be detrimental to our health instead of a godsend. Without genetic engineering people can live life to the fullest and value what time they are naturally granted with. Worst of all, it's an awful investment that only the rich can utilise when instead we could be investing in cures for harmful illnesses or even resources for the less fortunate. If such an invention is so fruitless yet so wasteful, why should we even be interested in it?

Believe it or not genetic engineering will only interfere with our health and wellbeing. If we were born to have longer lifespans then we wouldn't need additional support from technology. It's better to have natural deaths instead of a new cause of deaths related to failures from genetic engineering. What if any problems are passed down onto future generations? Thanks to our selfish desires, we would force helpless children and grandchildren to live out potential diseases caused by genetic engineering. The human race has existed for so long without the help of any technology-so there's no reason for us to tamper with natural processes.

What's more, the power to extend our lifespans will surely make us ungrateful for what time we have already. Life is for us to achieve our greatest dreams, and achieve the most before we die. If we can extend life expectancy then it's no doubt we will start being vain with our time and taking it for granted. Look at great people in the past, who climbed mountains and created inventions without needing a longer lifespan to do it. They knew they had limited time to do something great, and so they made the most out of what they had. Those who laze around with extra time on their hands can always put off goals they need to achieve 'for later'-and that merely turns into wasted time. 

Not only time is wasted yet precious money is also thrown into such a fruitless product. Hundreds of homeless families could sustain themselves on the money used to implement genetic engineering onto only one rich businessman. It's one thing to be useless and harmful, but it's another thing to be waste millions of dollars. As you have seen the businessman would be genuinely better off without the genetic engineering-however people could even avoid death or starvation with that extra money. If you don't want future societies and generations to go to waste, it's imperative that we carefully consider how we use our resources for good.

Genetic engineering promises the slight chance of living longer-however it certainly promises a bleak future for our Earth, health and our moral standards. We need to invest precious resources into more urgent causes instead of satisfying the selfish desire to longer live out our luxuries, while billion of people continue to starve around the world. Are you going to succumb to a vain fancy? Or are you going to choose what's really best for everyone?