According to George Anna’s essay on genetic engineering, the genetically superior humans will seek and eliminate the “normal” humans and vice versa. I actually have to agree on this. The movie Gattica is a good example to prove this point.
Without giving it away, the movie is basically about how the future is when humans are genetically modified. Even if the humans are modified, they can still have some flaws and they are often discriminated against.
There is skepticism about this film and a lot of arguments against the fact that this will actually happen, but if we look back in history, it pretty much already happened. We had the Nazi’s killing off Jewish people because they practiced a different religion and because they didn’t look like the “ideal” human that Hitler was looking for. This consisted of blonde hair and blue eyes. People were dying just because they were born a certain way. African Americans were made into slaves just because their skin tone was dark and people related that to something bad. And now, they are often looked upon as thieves and drug dealers because of the black stereotype.
So being that all this has happened, what makes people so sure that it isn’t going to happen again? We can try to avoid it, but we have to think realistically when it comes to the idea of genetic discrimination.
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