Genetic modification is a very controversial thing, and the various issues involved in it are enough to hinder anyone who wants to study it.

Even if you have the unwavering determination to study it, someone will still ask you: "If a person transforms his genes, can he still be called a human?"

Similar conflicts of ideas and disputes are common in various science fiction works. Whenever there will always be a group of so-called human supremacists who clamor for the "clean world for the sake of blue" to jump out to stop it.

In order to prevent the so-called crime of "defiling human genes", they will even create more horrifying and anti-human evil deeds, and they will also call it necessary sacrifices.

"...But, what can we really call human beings? How do we make human beings?" Chen Xin asked Qin Lan, who asked the same question.

"This, aren't humans humans? The reason why humans are humans is because we are smart, wise and thoughtful?" Qin Lan has also read some science fiction works under the influence of Chen Xin before, and she would not be unable to answer the question he asked.

However, this answer is obviously not comprehensive enough, at least it cannot be said to be completely correct.

"The reason why people are human is indeed because we have wisdom and thoughts, but is wisdom and thoughts inherent in human beings? The answer is not necessarily." Chen Xin was truly like a scholar sitting in front of Qin Lan at this time and said quietly: "If a baby grows up in human society since childhood, 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, or even raised by wild animals, he will not be able to have the wisdom and thoughts that a person should have in any case."

Qin Lan did not refute Chen Xin's statement, but nodded in agreement.

In 1920, in a small town called Midnapool in northeast of Kolkata, India, two girls raised by wolves and called wolf children were discovered, which caused a sensation.

The two girls were about seven or eight years old and the younger one was about two years old. The two little girls were sent to the orphanage in Midnapole to raise them, and they were also named. The older one was Kamala and the younger one was Amala. In the second year, Amala died, and Kamala lived until 1929.

Through this incident, people came to a conclusion that if the wolf child was not born with a congenital defect, this example shows that human knowledge and talents are not gifted, and walking upright and speaking are not innate instincts, all of which are the products of acquired social practice and labor.

"The reason why humans can be called humans and have wisdom and thoughts is because of the existence of the entire human civilization and society. If we lose these, we are actually not very different from wild animals." In Chen Xin's view, the reason why humans are called humans comes from thoughts and souls, not **: "If it is simply from the perspective of species, humans are Homo sapiens, which are just one of the species under the sub-order primates of the mammals.

Even under the category of the Human Family Sub-America, there are 16 other species listed in the same category as Homo sapiens. Although they have become extinct, they can also be called humans from a biological point of view.

So 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 one of animals. Isn't genetic modification still polluting the purity of human genes?" Mo Qingyan, who appeared beside him, suddenly interrupted: "And putting aside other issues, Ah Xin, you use the wolf gene to transform humans. Is it a wolf or a human? Don't you do this kind of unethical and ethical things? Didn't the country introduce an illegal gene editing crime before the disaster? Ah Xin, your approach is already illegal, right?"

"That is a newly added article in Article 336 of the Criminal Law. It is considered a crime to implant gene editing and cloned human embryos into human or animal bodies, or to implant gene editing and cloned animal embryos into human bodies." Because relevant genetic modification research is required, Chen Xin of course also consulted relevant legal provisions: "Embryonic implantation is a crime, and simply studying genes is not illegal."

"But even if this is not illegal, it is also a moral violation! Human genes are the perfect product of evolution, so how can they be modified at will?" Due to his former professional habits, Qin Lan disliked Chen Xin's attitude that I could do it without regulations.

"Myth is indeed necessary to be followed, but if morality itself is ignorant, do we still need to follow social morality? In the feudal era, a woman without talent is virtue. This is the social morality at that time, but do we still need to abide by such things now? Society is constantly developing and progressing, and morality is the same." Chen Xin explained to Qin Lan and Mo Qingyan with great thought, trying to convince them.

This is the two of them. If it were the other person, Chen Xin would have been impatient for a long time, so how could he have such good patience to explain slowly?

"Even if social morality needs to be continuously improved and developed, this is not a reason to modify human genes at will, right?" Mo Qingyan comforted Qin Lan, who was a little excited, and turned to Chen Xin and asked: "The human body is a perfect masterpiece of natural evolution. Even if there is something inappropriate, can't wait for humans to evolve themselves? Why do we have to use such radical means of genetic modification?"

"The human body is perfect? ​​Hahaha, Long Niang, you are afraid that you have read too many novels. You really think that humans are the innate Taoist body. If monsters want to practice, they must become humans first?" Chen Xin smiled as if his stomach hurts. It was not until Mo Qingyan twisted him dissatisfied that he put away his smile and continued to explain: "The reason why humans are like this is just the result of constant compromise with the natural environment, because humans evolved not only not, but the brain. If we only look at biological evolution, the human body is actually very cumbersome and bloated.

And it's not just our **, but even our genes are the same. Countless redundant chains are filled with our genes. Some of them come from the remnants of our evolution from the ocean to the land in the past, and some of them evolved to adapt to the environment of a special period. However, all of these things are retained in our genes, which are complex and useless.

It wouldn't be so important if it was just excess garbage, but these complex and complex genes are still mutating all the time, and may even collapse, forming tumors that erode life in the body.

Taking away the sacredness of human beings, simply from the perspective of the strength and strength of the organisms, all human organs are not the best, and many of them are outrageous.

The overlapping organ functions, the extremely wasteful neural tubes, the tangled blood vessels and neural networks that are like the most complex maze but not as good as linear blood vessels and neural networks, as well as various discarded and useless information that exists since the beginning of genes...

If humans are regarded as an engineering creation, then this creation is an unqualified product that can continue to work through various coincidences and constant banging and making up for by various external factors.

Therefore, with the development of human science and technology and the advancement of medicine and biology, it is inevitable for scientific and technological development to optimize genes and carry out genetic transformation."
Chapter completed!