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Chapter 415 Flesh and flesh are weak

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    Genetic modification is a very controversial thing, and the moral and ethical issues involved are enough to hinder anyone who wants to study it.

    Even if you have an unwavering determination to study it, some people will still question you: "If a person has modified his own genes, can he still be called a human?"

    Similar ideological conflicts and disputes are common in various science fiction works. At any time, there will always be a group of so-called human supremacists who clamor for "a blue and clean world" to stop them.

    In order to prevent the so-called crime of "tarnishing human genes", they will even concoct more horrifying and anti-human evil deeds, and call them necessary sacrifices.

    "But, what can we really call a human being? What is a human being?" Chen Xin asked Qin Lan, who asked the same question, in return.

    "Aren't humans just humans? The reason why humans are humans is because we are smart, wise and thoughtful?" Qin Lan had also read some science fiction works under the influence of Chen Xin before, but she didn't have any idea about the question he asked.  As for not being able to answer.

    However, this answer is obviously not comprehensive enough, at least it cannot be said to be completely correct.

    "The reason why humans are human is indeed because we have wisdom and thoughts, but are wisdom and thoughts innate to human beings? The answer is not necessarily." At this time, Chen Xin truly behaved like a scholar, sitting in front of Qin Lan  Let¡¯s talk about it: ¡°If a baby grows up in human society, then he will naturally have the wisdom and thoughts that can be called a person. But if a baby is far away from human society since childhood, or even raised by wild animals,  If he is too big, then he will not be able to have the wisdom and thoughts that a person should have."

    Qin Lan did not refute Chen Xin's statement, but nodded in agreement.

    In 1920, in a small town called Midnapore northeast of Kolkata, India, two girls who were raised by wolves and called wolf children caused a sensation.

    The older of the two girls was about seven or eight years old, and the younger was about two years old. The two little girls were sent to an orphanage in Midnapore to be raised. They were also given names. The older one was called Kamala.  , the little one is called Amala.  Amara died the next year, but Kamala lived until 1929.

    Through this incident, people came to the conclusion that if the wolf child is not born with a congenital defect, then this example shows that human knowledge and talents are not innate, and walking upright and speaking are not innate instincts.  All of these are the product of acquired social practice and labor.

    "The reason why people can be called people and have wisdom and thoughts is because of the existence of human civilization and society. If we lose these, we are actually not much different from beasts." In Chen Xin's view, people  The reason why we are called human comes from the mind and soul, not the body: ¡°If we look at it simply from a species perspective, human beings are Homo sapiens, which is just one of the species under the suborder Eutheria, order Mammalia, order Primates, order Anthropoid.

    Even under the category of Hominidae, Sub-Homo, there are 16 other species in the same category as Homo sapiens. Although they are extinct, from a biological point of view, they can also be called humans.

    So purely from the perspective of biological classification, there is no essential difference between humans and other animals. The so-called human supremacy is just the arrogance of humans themselves.  "

    "But even if there is no essential difference between humans and animals, humans are also a type of animal. Doesn't genetic modification still pollute the purity of human genes?" Mo Qingyan, who had appeared at the side at some point, suddenly interjected.  : "And putting aside other issues, Asin, if you use wolf genes to transform humans, will the result be a wolf or a human? It's better not to do such an unethical thing? Didn't the country just introduce it before the disaster?  Is it a crime of illegal gene editing? Ah Xin, what you are doing is already illegal, right?"

    "That is a newly added provision in Article 336 of the Criminal Law. It is considered a crime to implant gene-edited or cloned human embryos into humans or animals, or to implant gene-edited or cloned animal embryos into humans.  ." Because he wanted to do related genetic modification research, Chen Xin of course also checked the relevant legal provisions: "Embryo implantation is a crime. Simply researching genes is not illegal."

    "But even if it's not illegal, it's also against morality! Human genes are the perfect product of evolution, how can they be modified at will?" Due to her past professional habits, Qin Lan didn't like Chen Xin's idea that I could do it without any legal provisions.  Doing attitude.

    "Morality does need to be followed, but if there is ignorance in morality itself, then do we still need to follow social morality? In the feudal era, women without talent wereMorality, this was the social morality at that time, but do we still need to abide by this kind of thing now?  Society is constantly developing and progressing, and so is morality.  "Chen Xin explained to Qin Lan and Mo Qingyan earnestly, trying to convince them both.

    This is just the two of them. If it had been anyone else, Chen Xin would have been impatient long ago. How could he have such good patience to explain slowly.

    "Even if social morality needs to continue to progress and develop, this is not a reason to modify human genes at will, right?" Mo Qingyan comforted the agitated Qin Lan, then turned to Chen Xin and asked: "The human body evolves naturally  It¡¯s a perfect masterpiece, even if there are some inappropriate things, can¡¯t we just wait for human beings to evolve themselves? Why do we have to use such a radical method as genetic modification?¡±

    "The human body is perfect? ??Hahaha, Dragon Lady, you may have read too many novels. Do you really think that human beings are some kind of innate Taoist body? Do monsters have to become human before they can practice?" Chen Xin smiled as if he heard this.  His stomach hurt. It wasn't until Mo Qingyan pinched him in dissatisfaction that he put away his smile and continued to explain: "The reason why human beings are what they are now is just the result of constant compromise with the natural environment. Because of human evolution,  It is not the body, but the brain. From the perspective of biological evolution, the human body is actually very cumbersome and bloated.

    And it¡¯s not just our bodies, even our genes are the same. Countless redundant chains are filled with our genes. Some of them come from the remnants of the past when we evolved from the ocean to land, and some are just to adapt to certain conditions.  Emergency mechanisms evolved from the environment of a special period, but these things are all retained in our genes, complicated and useless.

    "It doesn't matter if it's just extra garbage, but these complex and complicated genes are mutating all the time, and may even collapse themselves, forming tumors that corrode life in the body.

    Remove the sanctity of human beings and simply look at the strength and quality of the biological structure. All human organs are not the best, and many of them are even outrageous.

    Overlapping organ functions, extremely wasteful neural pipelines, blood vessels and neural networks that are as winding as the most complex maze but not as straight as a straight line, and all kinds of discarded and useless information that have existed since the beginning of genes

    If we regard human beings as an engineering creation, then this creation is completely unqualified and can continue to work through various coincidences and external factors.

    Therefore, with the development of human science and technology and the progress of medicine and biology, optimizing genes and carrying out genetic modification is an inevitable trend in the development of science and technology.  "(Remember the website address of this website: www.hlnovel.com
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