Genetic Engineering: Is it fair?
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Genetic Engineering: Is it fair? "It's time to stop worshipping gods, and aiming at becoming gods." - Markoff Chaney Genetic engineering is a subject for debate throughout the world and especially for religious communities where faith experts apply ancient laws and principals to cutting edge science. Jewish experts have thought particularly hard about genetic engineering. Partly because their community has an obvious application for the technology since there's a particular genetic disease, Tay Sachs, that targets some types of Jewish people and partly because Jewish law, Halakha, has examined medical issues in great depth throughout history. It's also a painful subject for the Jewish community, not just because of the suffering of individuals, but because false genetic and eugenic arguments were used to justify the Holocaust in which over 6 million Jews were murdered. These are the following Social and moral questions that people considering Genetic engineering in medical terms * Is it right to screen...

