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This video highlights the cosmetic motives behind reproductive genetic technology and the already achieved advancements science has made that could alter the future of humans and genetic manipulation.

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The silliness of this video keeps the audience's attention while still providing useful and sound information about the development of this particular ethical issue in genetic engineering- creating super humans. The thesis is that genetic engineering has taken what evolution has done and has replicated is just much faster, and this could pose a very serious threat in the future. If people were to allow gene therapy at all, people would begin to use the therapy for creating super humans. All this would take is extracting any "weak" genes and putting in extremely powerful and immune "strong" genes. This use of genetic engineering helps support my opinion because I think that this type of therapy would be incredibly detrimental to human society. All babies in the future would be genetically modified. If one was not, then they would be left behind or outdone by all the other humans. After a while, the best genes would be in every person, posing the need for all people to continue to want to be better than everyone else, and therefore continuing to modify their genes in extreme ways. The set up of the video is clear and well organized.