Everyone wants their child to be perfect, and new measures are being taken to ensure their child is everything and more. To ensure that a child has all the necessary desired traits, humans genetically modify them. In doing so, changes are made to the child's DNA code to take the best characteristics of the parents and pass them on to the child. The child is provided with ideal traits, such as being athletic, tall, and intelligent, while undesirable traits, such as color blindness and the presence of other genetic mutations, are prevented. Although the parent feels like he is giving his child a perfect life by giving him the characteristics to be successful, he is going against the natural lifestyle. Throughout time, women have given birth to children without choosing them, just as every other organism has done. The greatest minds and the most interesting individuals are born by chance, or by destiny; why change it? Parents should not be allowed to “design children,” like Jerome and Anton in the movie Gattaca, because of the divided social classes and false senses of superiority that would result. When people start to be genetically modified, they will be thought of as the master race. More opportunities will be available to them only because employers want the best of the best and, by their blood, that is the case. In Gattaca Vincent and the other "invalids" worked as doormen. They were told that they would never amount to anything in life, for example, "the only way [they would see] the inside of a space shuttle is if [they are] cleaning it", unlike those whose genes have been selected (Gattaca). The “good ones” were able to run business, work in government, compete in national games, and even go among… middle of paper… people for the better; anyone who cannot see this has never fully developed and reached their full potential. While genetic engineering has its benefits, parents should not be able to engineer their own children. The first people on Earth were born naturally and this trend has been followed forever, creating irreplaceable people. Society has become increasingly complex and genetic engineering will only make it more complicated, adding to social divisions and ideas of superiority between people. In today's world, attractive people with incredible wealth or political power are considered supreme over others, we don't need another class of people whose DNA now defines them. All in all, society must solve its original problems in judging others before any type of genetic engineering is used on humans. Works Cited GattacaBuzzle