Through genetic engineering, transgenic organisms are created to improve upon nature, to act as bioreactors that make useful products, or to act as models for understanding basic biology. ... Molecular biology and the DNA revolution are already having an enormous impact on medicine. ... Smith says, #" Knowledge which is disseminated in a way that destroys just cultural institutions or practices is immoral and should be restrained because it threatens the very fabric and basis of our communal life," and also said, #" That knowledge which can be destructive of us as persons could be restrict...

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The idea of cleansing the genetic pool eventually evolved into the Nazi practice of Euthanasia, the killing of people for the greater good of humanity. This practice resulted in the death of millions during the Second World War According to the historian Stefan Kuhl, the theories of eugenics from which the Nazis operated were also shared with their American counterparts and the rest of the Western world (Nazi eugenic 1994). ... While this practice is considered unlikely to be allowed, the possibility still exists. ... It is entirely possible that this practice would create a new and stig...

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From one end to the other, consumers are in revolt over the prospect of a future in which nature has somehow been altered by people holding test tubes. ... The debate to unleash the most powerful tools of modern biology says much about the differences between Europe and America. ... Klusmann 6 "As the technologies of reproduction and genetics have become ever more powerful over the last decade, most practicing scientists and physicians have been loath to speculate about where it may all lead. ...

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