On December 14th, I had an interview to my CM classmate during the class to practice for the coming "Poster Presentation". The question I asked was that "If you could genetically engineer your child, would you do so? Why or why not?"
To this question, Hitomi replied "No" because of the following reasons. Firstly, using genetic enginerring itself is against the law of nature so that she is against it. Second, if she applied the technology, her child will lose the original characteristics. In addition, the child's life will greatly change.
During the interview, I felt that it is a little bit difficult because interviewing is a kind of interacting between an interviewer and an interviewee. When I ask a question to someone with some expectations, however, s/he doesn't always response in a way like what I expected. Furthermore, I think interviewers have to show their understandings toward what interviewees said and comment about it, and then ask another question according to the responses. At the same time, it was also true that I enjoyed the difficulty!!
To Hitomi's comments, I have the opposite idea about genetic engineering. If I were asked the same question, I would answer "Yes" because my future child would be save his/her life from the certain desease if I would apply the technology. I thought it was quite natural to think that every parents wish their children to be healthy.
Through this interview, I learned that there cannot be only one answer to this question about genetic engineering. The topic is so controversial that we should consider about it in every possible case which may occur.
2 件のコメント:
Chiyuki,
Your format is very good! It is easy for me to understand your report.
I also thought it is difficult for me to make our interview effective. Esoecially, I felt it is difficult to respond my interviwee's answer.
Anyway, I disagrre with genetically engineering our baby. For sure, it seems to be good that our baby will be healthy with genetically engineering. However, I am afraid that technology controlls human's body. So, I will and I want to accept my baby even if my baby has some troubles.
Yuki
Hi Chiyuki.
It is true that there cannot be RIGHT answer to this kind of question. I had been standing "No" position a lttle whil ago, however if I bare under unhealthy condition, such as lacking some parts of my body, then my parents tell me "We could make you a healthy boy by engineering you, but we didn't like it, so we didn't".
I would probably go crazy and hate their didecision.
Therefore, asnswer to this question may change depends on whose position you stand for.
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