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Genetic Engineering In Brave New World

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As the penman predicted, the mankind is now in the process of putting on the analogous paradigm to the control of mother nature (Mazzoni). Literally speaking, people are now engineering nature. They try to create and produce new forms of life by making interventions on the microcosmic level. With genetic modification, people climb to a new, highest level of genetics. The cloning industry as well as genetic engineering are advancing so fast that it would only take a short time until people would feel the power and would misuse them on their own account (Schumacher). One day cloning human beings will be an ordinary procedure just like in the novel by Aldous Huxley. In Huxley’s world, people are controlled by rewards (Aiman). There is no punishment,

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