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MEDICINE
ALMOST ALWAYS BEGINS BY SAVING PEOPLE
FROM FALLING BELOW THE NORM, BUT THE SAME TOOLS
AND KNOW-HOW CAN THEN BE USED TO SURPASS THE NORM?
Viagra began life as a treatment for blood-pressure problems. To the surprise
and delight of Pfizer, it transpired that Viagra can also overcome impotence! It enabled millions of men
to regain normal sexual abilities; but soon enough men who had no impotence problems in the first place
began using the same pill to surpass the norm, and acquire sexual powers they never had before. What happens
to particular drugs can also happen to entire fields of medicine. Modern plastic surgery was born in the First World War,
when Harold Gillies began treating facial injuries in the Aldershot military hospital. When the war was over, surgeons discovered
that the same techniques could also turn perfectly healthy but ugly noses into more beautiful specimens. Though plastic surgery continued to help the sick and wounded, it devoted increasing attention to ùpgráding the healthy... Nowadays plastic surgeons
make millions in private clinics whose explicit and sole aim is to upgrade the healthy & beautify the wealthy? The same might
happen with genetic engineering! If a billionaire openly stated that he intended to engineer super-smart offspring, imagine
the public outcry! But it won't happen like that? We are more likely to slide down a slippery slope! It begins with parents
whose genetic profile puts their children at high risk of deadly genetic diseases. So they perform IN VITRO fertilization,
and test the DNA of the fertilized egg. If everything is in order, all wèll & góód! But if the DNA test
discovers the dreaded mutations - the embryo is destroyed... Yet why take a chance by
fertilizing just òne ègg? Better fertilize several, so that even if
three or four are defective there is at least one
góód embryo! When this in vitro selection
procedure becomes acceptable &
cheap enough, its
usage may
spread.
ALMOST ALWAYS BEGINS BY SAVING PEOPLE
FROM FALLING BELOW THE NORM, BUT THE SAME TOOLS
AND KNOW-HOW CAN THEN BE USED TO SURPASS THE NORM?
Viagra began life as a treatment for blood-pressure problems. To the surprise
and delight of Pfizer, it transpired that Viagra can also overcome impotence! It enabled millions of men
to regain normal sexual abilities; but soon enough men who had no impotence problems in the first place
began using the same pill to surpass the norm, and acquire sexual powers they never had before. What happens
to particular drugs can also happen to entire fields of medicine. Modern plastic surgery was born in the First World War,
when Harold Gillies began treating facial injuries in the Aldershot military hospital. When the war was over, surgeons discovered
that the same techniques could also turn perfectly healthy but ugly noses into more beautiful specimens. Though plastic surgery continued to help the sick and wounded, it devoted increasing attention to ùpgráding the healthy... Nowadays plastic surgeons
make millions in private clinics whose explicit and sole aim is to upgrade the healthy & beautify the wealthy? The same might
happen with genetic engineering! If a billionaire openly stated that he intended to engineer super-smart offspring, imagine
the public outcry! But it won't happen like that? We are more likely to slide down a slippery slope! It begins with parents
whose genetic profile puts their children at high risk of deadly genetic diseases. So they perform IN VITRO fertilization,
and test the DNA of the fertilized egg. If everything is in order, all wèll & góód! But if the DNA test
discovers the dreaded mutations - the embryo is destroyed... Yet why take a chance by
fertilizing just òne ègg? Better fertilize several, so that even if
three or four are defective there is at least one
góód embryo! When this in vitro selection
procedure becomes acceptable &
cheap enough, its
usage may
spread.
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