Chapter 415

Genetic modification is a controversial thing, which involves moral, ethical and other issues enough to hinder anyone who wants to study it.

Even with unswerving determination to study it, some people will still ask you: "if a person changes his genes, can he still be called a person?"

Similar conceptual conflicts and disputes are common in all kinds of sci-fi works. At any time, there will always be a group of so-called human supremacists clamoring for "a clean world for the sake of blue".

Even in order to prevent the so-called crime of "tarnishing human genes", they will concoct more appalling and more anti-human evils, and glorify it as necessary sacrifice.

“…… But what can we really call people? How can a man be a man? " Chen Xin asks Qin LAN the same question.

"Well, isn't human being human? The reason why human beings are human beings is that we are intelligent, intelligent and thoughtful? " Qin LAN has seen some sci-fi works under the influence of Chen Xin before, but she can't answer the question he asked.

However, this answer is obviously not comprehensive enough, at least not completely correct.

"The reason why people are human is because we have wisdom and thought, but is wisdom and thought innate? The answer is not necessarily Chen Xin is really like a scholar, sitting in front of Qin LAN and talking: "if a baby grows up in human society, he can naturally have the wisdom and thought that can be called a person, but if a baby is far away from human society since childhood, or even raised by wild animals, he can't have what a person should have The wisdom and thought of the people. "

For Chen Xin's this view, Qin LAN did not refute, but agreed with the nod.

In 1920, in a small town named midnapol in the northeast of Calcutta, India, two girls raised by wolves, known as wolf children, were found and caused a sensation.

The oldest of the two girls was about seven or eight years old, and the youngest was about two years old. The two little girls were sent to the orphanage in midnapol to raise them, and they were named as Kamala and Amara. The next year Amara died, and Kamala lived until 1929.

Through this event, people have come to a conclusion that if wolf children are not born with congenital defects, then this example shows that human knowledge and talent are not innate, upright walking and speech are not innate instincts, all of which are the products of acquired social practice and labor.

"So the reason why people can be called human beings and have wisdom and ideas is because of the existence of the whole human civilization and society. If we lose these, we are not much different from wild animals." According to Chen Xin, the reason why human beings are called human beings comes from thought and soul, not from body: "if we only look at them from species, human beings are Homo sapiens. They are only one of the species of Mammalia, Mammalia, primates and ape.

Even under the category of Hominidae, subfamily Hominidae, there are 16 other species listed with Homo sapiens. Although they are extinct, they can also be called humans from a biological point of view.

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

"But even if there is no essential difference between human beings and animals, human beings also belong to animals. Isn't genetic transformation still polluting the purity of human genes?" I don't know when Mo Qingyan, who appeared on one side, suddenly put in a word: "and put aside other problems, ah Xin, you use wolf's genes to transform human beings. Are you a wolf or a human? Don't do such things that are against morality and ethics? Before the disaster, the state just issued a crime of illegal gene editing? Ah Xin, have you violated the law? "

"That is a new provision added to Article 336 of the criminal law, which regards it as a crime to implant human or animal embryos edited or cloned by genes into human or animal bodies, or to implant animal embryos edited or cloned by genes into human bodies." Because of the need to do relevant genetic transformation research, Chen Xin also consulted the relevant legal provisions: "embryo implantation is a crime, pure gene research, not a crime."

"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? " Because of her professional habits, Qin LAN didn't like Chen Xin's attitude that I could do without legal provisions.

"Morality really needs to be obeyed, but if there is ignorance in morality itself, do we still need to obey social morality? In feudal times, women's lack of talent was virtue, which was the social morality at that time. But do we still need to abide by this kind of thing now? Society is developing and progressing, and so is morality. " Chen Xin painstakingly explains to Qin LAN and Mo Qingyan, trying to persuade them.

This is the two of them. If they had changed to other people, Chen Xin would have been impatient. How could he have such good patience to explain slowly.

"Even if social morality needs continuous progress and development, this is not the reason to modify human genes at will, is it?" Mo Qingyan calms Qin LAN, who is a little excited, turns to Chen Xin and asks, "the human body is a perfect masterpiece of natural evolution. Even if there is something inappropriate, can't we wait for human self evolution? Why do we have to take such radical measures as genetic modification? ""Is the human body perfect? Hahaha, long Niang, I'm afraid you've read too many novels. Do you really think that human beings are born with Tao, and monsters have to become adults before they can practice? " Hearing this, Chen Xinxiao seemed to have a stomachache. Until Mo Qingyan twisted him discontentedly, he stopped laughing and continued to explain: "the reason why human beings are like this is just the result of continuous compromise to the natural environment, because human evolution is not the body, but the brain. From the perspective of biological evolution, human body is actually very cumbersome and bloated It's swollen.

And it's not only our bodies, but also our genes. Countless redundant chains are full of our genes. Some of them come from the remnants of our evolution from the sea to the land in the past, and some of them are just emergency mechanisms evolved to adapt to the environment of a special period, but all of these things remain in our genes It is miscellaneous and useless.

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

To remove the sacredness of human beings, from the point of view of the strength and quality of biological structure, all human organs are not the best, or even a lot of bad ones.

Overlapping organ functions, wasteful neural channels, winding like the most complex labyrinth, but not as good as straight-line blood vessels and neural networks, as well as all kinds of abandoned and useless information from the beginning of genes

If human beings are regarded as an engineering creation, then this creation can only 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, it is necessary to optimize and transform genes

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