Should it be Used?
My opinion on the use if this technology is that it should be further researched and tested before it can be used. But when there comes a time when this technology is perfected and is able to cure diseases, I think that it should be used without question. I feel that although there are many issues with the side effects of this product, such as severe immune responses and the chance that there may be further mutation of DNA, the benefits outweigh the risks. This product if perfected will be able to give many people a chance at normal life. For these people who have been in pain, suffering in the hospital for their whole life, this product would be deemed as a miracle. Many patients would feel that having a shorter life with greater risks of death but without pain and symptoms of the disease and having a normal life would be much better than living in the hospital suffering from the disease but living a few years longer. To them, having a longer life span in the hospital is not living. Also, if there is a great chance that the patient will die without this treatment, at least the treatment would be able to give the patient hope that they may one day be cured and live a normal, healthy life. Gene therapy may be the only cure that can be found for these diseases that gets to the root of the cause.
There is also a lot of debate on whether gene therapy can be viewed as an act of playing god, curing these genetic disorders that people where born with. But if this product is only solely used for treating genetic disorders, it is no different from a vaccine. A vaccine introduces the virus to the body so that the body can protect itself from this virus. This can also be viewed as an act of playing god since you are also injecting DNA into the body so that the body can protect its self from it. Gene therapy is only a treatment that can be done to better the life of a patient. If one even one person can be cured by gene therapy, it should be considered a great achievement because a life was saved.
There is also a lot of debate on whether gene therapy can be viewed as an act of playing god, curing these genetic disorders that people where born with. But if this product is only solely used for treating genetic disorders, it is no different from a vaccine. A vaccine introduces the virus to the body so that the body can protect itself from this virus. This can also be viewed as an act of playing god since you are also injecting DNA into the body so that the body can protect its self from it. Gene therapy is only a treatment that can be done to better the life of a patient. If one even one person can be cured by gene therapy, it should be considered a great achievement because a life was saved.