As society has evolved through the decades so has the ability to evolve humans

         Eugenics is defined in the Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary as "the science that deals with the improvement of races and breeds, especially the human race, through the control of hereditary factors." One may simply skim over that sentence and only briefly grasp the magnitude of its defintion. Eugenics is a recent procedure which the future of man kind will one day rely upon in order to survive. Many take the idea of Eugenics as a form of "life extension", to physically enhance and alter genes in a way that provides internal benefits to that person's make-up and their organs or as a way to improve a person physically solely because they aspire to have preferred traits by the alteration of inheritable traits through the selection, modification, and enhancement of certain genes. In this day and age, our society on a global scale has continuously aimed for the development of powerful technologies while persistently out-doing the previous, by creating an even more paramount device or procedure. Our nation has always been competing with itself to be the best. In 1980, with the Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty, the justices decided that genetically modified organisms can be patented. A whirlwind of scientific developments took off after that, not only was corn now genetically modified but just about every US crop within our borders was somehow altered to be stronger, better, faster growing, and more productive. Not only have we genetically modified crops, animals, plants, pharmaceutical drugs, microbes, insects, and food, but now we have arrived to the extent of desiring to genetically modify humans.
               Gene therapy, which is the alteration of genes to treat disease, along with the process of Eugenics has spiraled into two forms. Either gene modification can be used for disease-related purposes, i.e. treatment, prevention, curing, detection, and deletion of genes, or in a nondisease manner, by improving or enhancing of undesirable/desirable genes through alteration or enhancement to create a more beneficial trait. Because of the idea to use this procedure on humans is so fresh to our culture, the societal question becomes whether nondisease genetic engineering in humans is worth supporting and carrying-out or if the manipulation of genes for nondisease intentions is unethical and should be stopped. Genetic modification in humans merely for pure desire,without previously having being subjected to treatment for a medical reason is unethical, uncandid and should be stopped. Gene doping for nondisease purposes should not be accepted or carried out within society at any point.