Chapter 414: Flesh and Weak

Genetic modification is a very controversial thing, and the moral and ethical issues involved are enough to hinder anyone who wants to study it.
Even with the unwavering determination to study it, someone will still ask you: "If a person has modified his own genes, can he still be called a human being?"
Similar conflicts of ideas and disputes are common in all kinds of sci-fi works. At any time, there will always be a group of so-called human supremacists who are clamoring for a "clean world for the blue" to jump out to stop them.
Even in order to prevent the so-called crime of "staining human genes", they will concoct even more shocking and anti-human evil deeds, which are also called necessary sacrifices.
"...But what can really be called a human? How can a human be a human?" Chen Xin asked Qin Lan back when she asked the same question.
"Aren't human beings humans? Humans are humans because we are smart, intelligent and thoughtful?" Qin Lan had seen some sci-fi works under the influence of Chen Xin before, but he was not at all concerned with the question he asked. As for the answer is not up.
However, this answer is obviously not comprehensive enough, at least not completely correct.
"The reason why people are human is indeed because we have wisdom and thoughts, but are wisdom and thoughts innate to humans? The answer is not necessarily." Chen Xin really acted like a scholar at this time, sitting in front of Qin Lan Let’s talk about it by paragraph:
If a baby grows up in human society, he will naturally have the wisdom and thoughts that can be called a person, but if a baby is far away from human society since childhood, it may even be raised by wild animals. Great, then he can’t have the wisdom and thoughts that a person should have anyway.

Qin Lan did not refute Chen Xin's statement, but nodded in agreement.
In 1920, in a small town named Midnapol in the northeast of Kolkata, India, two girls raised by wolves and called wolf children were found and caused a sensation.
The eldest of the two girls is about seven or eight years old, and the younger is about two years old. The two little girls were sent to an orphanage in Midnapol to raise them. They were also named, the eldest was Kamala. , The younger one is called Amara. In the following year, Amara died, and Kamala lived until 1929.
Through this incident, people came to the conclusion that if the wolf child was not born with a congenital defect, then this example shows: human knowledge and talents are not gifted, and walking upright and speech are not natural instincts. All these are the products of acquired social practice and labor.
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"The reason why people can be called human beings, possessing wisdom and thought, is because of the existence of the entire human civilization and society. If we lose these, we are not much different from wild beasts." In Chen Xin's view, humans The reason why it is called man comes from the mind and soul, not the body: "If it is purely from a species point of view, human beings are Homo sapiens, only one of the species under the suborder Mammalidae, Primates, Anthropoides.
Even under the category of Hominidae, Subhumanidae and Homo genus, there are 16 other species that are listed as Homo sapiens. Although they are extinct, they can also be called humans from a biological point of view.
So purely from the perspective of biological classification, there is no essential difference between humans and other animals. The so-called human supremacy is just the arrogance of human beings. "
"But even if there is no essential difference between humans and animals, humans are also a kind of animals. Isn't genetic modification still contaminating the purity of human genes?" Mo Qingyan, who appeared on the sidelines, suddenly interjected. "Besides other issues aside, Ah Sing, you use wolf genes to transform humans. Are you wolves or humans? Don’t do things that violate morals and ethics? Didn’t the state just come out before the disaster? Is it a crime of illegal gene editing? Axin, your actions are already illegal, right?"
"That is a newly added provision in Article 336 of the Criminal Law. It is a crime to implant gene-edited or cloned human embryos into humans or animals, or to implant gene-edited or cloned animal embryos into humans. "Because of the relevant genetic modification research, Chen Xin of course also consulted the relevant legal provisions: "Embryo implantation is a crime. It is not illegal to study genes only."
"But this is not illegal or moral! Human genes are the perfect product of evolution. How can they be modified at will?" Because of her previous professional habits, Qin Lan dislikes Chen Xin, and I can do it if the law does not stipulate it. Attitude.
"Ethics really need to be obeyed, but if there is ignorance in morality itself, do we still need to obey social morality? In the feudal era, women's ignorance is virtue. This is the social morality of the time, but we still need to observe this kind of thing Isn't it? The society is constantly evolving, and so is the morality." Chen Xin explained to Qin Lan and Mo Qingyan with a sincere heart, trying to convince them both.
This is the two of them. If you change to another person, Chen Xin will probably be impatient. How can you explain it slowly with such good patience.
"Even if social morality needs continuous progress and development, this is not a reason to modify human genes at will?" Mo Qingyan soothed Qin Lan, who was a little agitated, and turned to ask Chen Xin: "The human body is a natural evolution. The perfect masterpiece, even if there is something inappropriate, can’t wait for humans to evolve themselves? Why do we have to resort to such radical methods as genetic modification?"
"Human bodies are perfect? ​​Hahaha, Long Niang, you are afraid that you have read too many novels. Do you really think that human beings are innate bodies ~ EbookFREE.me~ Monsters must become humans if they want to cultivate, right?" Hear this Chen Xin smiled as if his stomach hurts. It wasn't until Mo Qingyan screwed him up with dissatisfaction that he put aside his smile and continued to explain: "The reason why human beings are like this is just a constant compromise with the natural environment. As a result, because humans evolved not the body, but the brain, the human body is actually very cumbersome and bloated from the perspective of biological evolution alone.
And it’s not just our body, even our genes are the same. There are countless kinds of redundant chains in our genes. Some of them come from the remnants of our past evolution from the ocean to the land, and some are just to adapt to something. The emergency mechanism evolved from the environment of a special period, but these things are all retained in our genes, and they are redundant and useless.
It doesn't matter if it is just dumping excess garbage, but these complex and complicated genes are mutated all the time, and even collapse on their own, forming life-eroding tumors in the body.
Taking off the sacredness of human beings, simply judging from the strength of the biological structure and the degree of pros and cons, all human organs are not the best, and many are even horrible.
Overlapping organ functions, extremely wasteful nerve channels, winding around like the most complicated labyrinth but not as straight line blood vessels and neural networks, and all kinds of waste and useless information that have existed since the beginning of genes...
If human beings are regarded as an engineering creation, then this creation is completely unqualified that can continue to work through various coincidences and external factors.
Therefore, with the development of human science and technology, the advancement of medicine and biology, the optimization of genes and genetic modification is an inevitable development of science and technology. "