this is my first post here in this forum. I`m in the advanced class year 13, so there are my A-level exams soon.
I wrote a comment on GE(genetic engineering) and it's already marked, but my teacher gave me no explanations why some words I've used are wrong. I don't even think he is as capable as he should as advaned class teacher. However, I'm gonna post my hole comment in a spoiler (if this forum software allows this) and tag the words of which I would like to have a explanation why it has been used wrongly in green and tag his (teacher's) correction in blue.
I'm sorry, I have not found a spoiler option. So I just posted the comment in Code tags.Comment on genetic engineering (GE):
Genetic engineering is a controversially discussed topic. In what follows I will figure out various arguments which are in favour and against genetic engineering (GE) to express my own opinion about GE.
On the one hand genes of food can be modified so farmers can grow more, for example cereals, on less space. This entails that the food-production is increasing, so starvation could be better[]tackled.
Furthermore, because of the higher production rate, the lousily(?) paidagriculturistsfarmers can earn more money if the prizes ofthefoodstuff does not fall.
Additionally new jobs could be generated. It is even conceivable that new jobs could be created, for example, exaggeratedly, a „cloner“. Hence the economic situation of many nations could be improved due to less unemployment. Thiscomes toresultis in general prosperity in turn.
Moreover physicians could heal injured and diseased people entirely by a progress of human genetic engineering.
Today, physicians can already heal burns limitedly, so there is hope that they can heal lots of other terrible bodily injuries and diseases in future.
Another important fact in favour of human genetic engineering is that genes can be modified in vitro so a child of two genetic diseased persons parents will be healthy. Thefollowingresult is that the coming generations would not have the gene which activates the disease, too.
In addition, a progress in human genetic engineering could give us the possibility to clone humans.
This leads to huge advantages in medicine: A clone has got the same blood and marrow so that humans have got a perfect donorabsolutely. (Why is absolutely wrong here?)
It would be also possible that scientists can change the genes of the clones in order that the clones work and do everything for human welfare withoutown self realisationbeing aware of it.
On the other hand nature gives us even more resources than we actually need, so there is no needoffar GM-food. Nevertheless humans are not efficient in the richer countries: People throw food[]away while in poorer countries peoplehave to hungerare starving.
This is a problem of behaviour, but there is a political reason as well: If all nations fought against starvation together, there would be no starvation anymore.
Moreover there are no studies as far as GM-food affects human genes directly or in future generations. In addition to that, it is hard to see the differences between natural cereals and gene modified cerealsalready nowadayseven today. It isuntransparentnot clear for theend-consumer what he or she eats,
not only because of the missing marks on the product, but because of drifts of seeds.
Another argument against GE is that the elite of the poorer countries would emigrate, because these nations cannot promote and finance studies because of their missingmeansfinancials (I wanted to use this nice alliteration). These facts show us
obviouslyquite clearly how the differences of the Western World and the Third World would enlarge instead ofcompresslessen.
Of course, it would be good if genetic diseased people can have a healthy baby by human GE, but, let us be honest, in practice richer people would exploit research achievements to program the look, skills and abilities of their unborn children.
Lastly the most important argument for me is about cloningandis the thoughts thattheyclones are justone ofour possession and we could useour clonesthem as slaves:ThisThese thoughts are unethically whoever thinks them. Clones would also be humanswhichwho live their own life, have the same feelings and live under the laws of nature like we do.
ThisThese thoughts that they could be our personal slaves leads to a new race dichotomy of humans and clones. Responsibility looks different.
In conclusion I can say that I am against GE because there is no powerful argument for me to be in favour of GE. History should have taught us, but humans cannot learn, so they just think about how to earn as much as money as soon as possible, are ignorant and selfish.
As long as it is like this I am against GE, because there are too many risks and we do not really are in the position that we need GE to survive. If it has been so, god would have done a mistake.
by Yarox
Once again, I`d like to get some explanations why the green marked words are wrong. I had a look on http://www.dict.cc to use these vocabularies. I hope you can explain me my mistakes.
Furthermore it would be nice if you tell me what do you think about my comment in language usage and phrase/expression. It was a 2- and I definetly think my skills are better compared with my classmates', especially who`ve got a better mark, but I do not want to flame either
Maybe I am too convinced of myself, so I`d like to get some neutral positions
Thanks
Yarox.