... risks against the benefits". The morals of an individual rely on their "feeling rather than facts" of a situation. Genetic engineering could be used to make new weapons of mass destruction. The technology is compact, relatively cheap, hard to verify and well within the budget of small countries unable to support the infrastructure required to build nuclear weapons. It could increase the speed of development and subtlety of design of biochemical weapons. For example, "Chinese scientists have been experimenting with splicing spider genes into silk worms for the past four years in the hope that it will be possible to mass-produce jackets and parachutes that are strong enough to be bullet proof". There are many advantages and disadvantages to genetic engineering. There are benefits such as easy production of otherwise rare products like human growth hormone or insulin. It could be used to tailor crops to produce high yields in difficult ...

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