Perfect Child Research Paper

Perfect Child – Against

Humans are always trying to achieve something they’ll never have, something that is so blatantly unachievable that it’s strange that they’re even trying.

This is- perfection.

Perfect skin, perfect hair, perfect eyes, perfect society, they’re always trying to reach this state.

And now they’re starting to move onto: Perfect Children.

This means that a parent is able to genetically modify their child to meet their requirements for what is considered “perfect”. Whether it be no mental disability or illness, high intelligence, no physical conditions, etc.

This, however, should not be the case.

There is a ton of times where this selective breeding has turned out bad for non-human species. For example: Pugs; this dog breed is susceptible to nasal and respiratory infection and disease because they have been selectively bred to have a short nose. Dachshunds (or Sausage Dogs) are another example of this being the

Why should we care if they have more or less chromosomes, if they have or are a carrier of an “undesirable” genotype or phenotype, if they have physical, mental or psychological conditions, about their pedigree or the punnet square? We should let our children be themselves instead of better versions of their parents. We should give them the chance to pick their careers, their education, their lives, instead of it being entirely dependent on their genes, the chance to truly be an individual and stand out from the crowd. This is world we should be striving to create, not a world where everyone is nearly the exact same as each-other. Because perfection is entirely subjective, is it not? An art critique might consider Picasso perfection, while another might consider The Sistine Chapel perfection, and a parent might consider their mentally and physically disabled child to be perfect, while another might consider a perfectly healthy and smart child to be