my view of eugenics

          Since life was patented in the early 1990s the world has evolved more than adapted. We are always taking situations or experiments to the extreme. For scientists and genetics to begin heading towards altering human genes is just radical. Disease related experiments are still unaccepted in society so for them to introduce a whole new, even more dangerous idea of nondisease treatment is just an "out of this world" concept. With disease engineering in genes, the microbiologists detect in DNA, certain strands that appeal of possible or confirmed traits that a pathogen would acquire. The next step in the process after identification of the harmful or defective DNA, is to take the same DNA of that disease but this time that of a healthy one, place it into a non-harming virus which is then placed back into the DNA of that person so it can reproduce rapidly, as viruses do, with the correct and helpful new DNA to minimize or eliminate the disease entirely.
Why use viruses? Since viruses infect the human cells so proficiently and at such a rapid reproduction pace, they are useful candidates for when attempting to shut down, cure or stop a disease from growing. With the healthy DNA strand now in the body, it quickly reproduces over and over again infecting the body in a healthy way, for once, to gain the desired traits. Other disease related testing includes diagnostic testing for adult-onset conditions. In this process, children or adolescents are tested to see if they are likely candidates for onset, predicted disease that will emerge later in life after a period of time. Some argue that this questionable approach to disease verification causes undue stress and harmful anxiety of having to wait for the disease to finally set in. Others oppose and say it is beneficial because even if they are diagnosed for the future disease to take over, they are grateful for knowing early-on because it gives them time to plan ahead with things like retirement, wills, financial situations, and completing or beginning their "bucket lists".
          Other potential problems with disease testing is that it has lead to testing of desired traits, which is categorized as nondisease testing. People are curious as to see what traits they will inherit, pass to their offspring, and which ones are favorable. Some of these designed tests in use already consist of testing for eye color, handedness, addictive behavior, "nutritional backgrounds", and athleticism. Once this testing becomes more common within society, some opposers worry that too much testing will occur that will lead to prejudice and social discriminative problems. For people who discover they do not possess the superior or desired gene that the majority of the population has, will develop a negative self-image or inferior complex. It's a gene. Not a tangible object, you can't just easily go replace it with a high priced gucci product so you fit in.  Testing also has developed for personality traits; we are able to figure out our inherited temperament, intelligence, anger. There is a fear with this type of testing that those who discover they have physiological or behavioral traits seem as negative will develop depression and other psychological damaging effects knowing they are designed within their body to not be as smart, as happy, or as calm as the majority of the population. For this, scientists and those investing this process fear for the future prejudicial problems that will arise.