Q3 blog 1: inductive

Should parents have the right to genetically modify their child?

I always wonder what it must feel like to be deaf or to be blind: being a 16 year old teenager who can hear and who is not blind i cannot fully make the jump between the two different worlds. However, i have had the privilege of talking to a person who is blind before and he seemed very content and happy with his life. Then i asked him the question: "if you had the chance to be able to see would you take it?" he answered very sternly, "no because i love my life the way it is because i can pay attention to things that others who can see cant." Many people who are blind would probably say the exact same thing, but, they probably only say that because they have never been able to see the beauty of this world. Parents should have the chance and right to genetically modify their children to be able to see or to eliminate any kind of deformity because the child should have every right to be able to live their life without being segregated and without being handicapped in anyway. In the movie Gattaca a genetically inferior man by the name of Vincent Freeman is able to achieve his dream through hard work and determination. Having seen this movie more than once i am able to see and understand the topic of genetically modifying a child and even though this movie is an example of a person succeeding without his parents genetically modifying him, parents should still have the right to genetically modify their child. Just because it happened to one person does not mean that it will happen for everybody else and there is not one person i know who wouldn't want to have an advantage at something like a test, so why not have an advantage in life? Although some may argue and say that genetically modifying a person is wrong and by doing so we are taking that child's free will away, i would say that if we don't we are just condemning that child to a life of segregation and separation that they don't have to live. All we would be doing by genetically modifying a child is making sure that that child has the best possible life with nothing to drag them down and is that not what every "good" parent wants?