Uranium
Criticism
The film Gattaca's retro-futurist depiction of genetic discrimination has been cited by a few bioconservative critics in support of their view that liberal eugenics should be suppressed. Techno-progressive bioethicist James Hughes argues these points however:
1. astronaut-training programs are entirely justified in attempting to screen out people with heart problems for safety reasons;
2. people are already discriminated against by insurance companies on the basis of their propensities to disease despite the fact that genetic enhancement is not yet available;
3. rather than banning genetic testing or genetic enhancement, society should ensure the privacy of genetic information, and strictly control when genetic information can be used to make decisions in education and employment.
However, in Gattaca, the use of genetic information to make decisions in education and employment is technically illegal (and is thinly disguised as "drug tests" to skirt the law), and the......
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