So Group Two ah, were going to talk about Eugenics and
basically Eugenics is um altering human DNA sequences
to produce a favored outcome. [Soft music plays in background]
That's probably one sentence a better definition for it.
Um, so as we get started we are going to actually
discuss what Eugenics is and give some background info on it.
Um but I like this because it kind of puts together
what Eugenics is and what it hopes to solve.
So basically  its basically just like putting a puzzle together
because your actually um, producing favored outcomes,
in DNA sequences. So you are wanting to produce
I don't know, either an athletic person or somebody,
who is diseases free. Um any of these outcomes
Eugenics aims to outperform.
So what is eugenics? Um as I mentioned its
basically just altering DNA to produce um what people would like,
Um and it kinda enables scientist to do this in a new way,
because it has never been done before and gene editing
sequences such as CRISPR, um which we'll talk about
a little later. Um actually allows you go in, take a
diseased portion of DNA out and replace it with a healthy one.
So that is probably one of the coolest aspect of Eugenics.
Um, and it can actually help families help learn more about themselves.
Um, where there ancestries came from, and again
right off that bat this can sound like a good thing,
there are negative sides to Eugenics um, as with anything
we will discuss those later as well.
So some background, Plato was the first one to mention Eugenics but,
it was coined by Sir Francis Galton in 1883 in one of his books.
Um, and Darwin as many of us well know, is actually
his cousin which is kinda ironic, um and he actually promoted
Eugenics along with his natural selection and,
all that scientific good stuff he came up with.
Um, in 1896 Connecticut actually made it Illegal for
feeble minded people to have children.
This kinda goes along with Hitler and the Nazi back in WWII,
[airplane flying by] because the goal was to kill off but a certain race.
Because they thought that everyone else had bad DNA.
Um and were more prone to getting sick, so
they wanted to produce a superior race.
That is the most negative aspect of Eugenics,
and that it can be used to kill off everybody
and just produce a certain population.
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Moving on to some of the stake holders
in this situation of Eugenics.
Um, you obviously the children and parents
of current and future, you have people with disease
who are going to most likely be patients of the project here.
And then you actually also have the doctors and
the researchers, Um what these do, they preform
the procedure, so their kind of, lives are at stake
and in their hands here
Which can be scary if you think about it
Um but to wrap all five of these up, its Kinda the world,
is ah, is a part of the stakeholders in this situation because
um, you have all the patience and you have
the doctors and you have the outcomes that come from Eugenics because
um, lets say that another Hitler comes along and
he aims to produce a certain race well.
I think that the world would be at stake because
um it would be a scary situation to have
another Hitler and somebody who wants to kill off
everybody to keep his own race going.
So to now talk about CRISPER, um so basically
what CRISPR Cas9 is, it's an enzyme, um, that
is actually in our DNA already but, it enables
geneticsts to edit parts of our genome and sequences
by removing specified genes or specified DNA sequences  that
we want to be gone.
So as you can see in this image here
this part of your DNA sequence needs to be cut out.
So the matching RNA sequence is
the guide for what we are looking for um and
whatCas9 does is it goes in and cuts that sequence
out, replaces it with a healthy one and then it leads to a mutation.
So hopefully the goal is to fix that broken piece
and replace it with a new one and
then it will be healthy and good as new.
And actually it helps recognize and defend against
future sequences that was replaced.
So this is a very, very new and initiative way
to do this and it is actually becoming more and more
common but right now were only at animal stages of testing.
But this is a very interesting case for editing DNA sequence.
And now we thought we would cover a mind map
just to talk about the ethical sides of this situation.
Um, So you have the positive and negative effects
of Eugenics, so we mentioned that Eugenics can be
looked at as a racist way because of Hitler's in the world
that want to produce only a certain race.
And then you actually have the positive effects below that
when you  look at the betterment of the human species.
You can get rid of some diseases that do still exist in the world.
It can also assess a child's medical needs.
So all these positive effects kinda come into one
that it is bettering the human as a species.
That one thing to produce favored and healthy outcome
that will better the world as a whole.
And on the other side we have the ethical situation
using the some of the theories, um and
we kinda determined that act utilitarianism is the only
deciding, well not the only but one of the major
deciding factors in this situation.
Um, because act utilitarianism is providing the most
happiness in any situation, right?
So using Act is going to be a pro and a con because
if, um people want to get rid of a race for a certain reason
That's act being used in the wrong way because its
not promoting happiness for everybody.
But if Eugenics is used correctly, act utilitarianism
can be the main deciding factor in weather to use Eugenics or not.
Because you will be providing the most happiness out
of most ,if hopefully all the groups.
If Eugenics and DNA editing is used because
you'll promote and provide healthy children in the future.
You can get rid diseases and heal families that
are broken by sickness um, and it
can be the leader, like if lets say that Eugenics
is used for the child and the child lives a long and
healthy life, they can be just a spotlight to where
to what we can do as a society, if Eugenics is further
on and advanced and continues to be used in society.
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So after researching and after just going over all the information
that we found and all the possible outcomes that
can come from Eugenics and what possible outcomes
have actually already been in society we determined
as a group that using Eugenics is ethical only in certain situation.
We've determined this because if it does using act
utilitarianism benefit the lives of others and
it leads to healthier lives and happier lives.
Then yes, Eugenics is perfectly ok um but
when it comes to the extent of dangering humans or
anybody in that fact, when it comes to dangering then or
giving advantages to  certain population or certain
races or just certain people in the world then
no we found that it is not ethical because
if your aiming to create a better population
but eliminate another population that defiantly not ok.
Because everybody should be able to live, everybody
should have an equal opportunity at life.
Um ya, Its just unfair to kill off people just cause
there different than you.
So that's where it comes to and again using act utilitarianism
we came to all these conclusions um, and
like I mentioned in the very beginning this is just
the surface of Eugenics there is so much more to cover
in this topic and it was such an interesting topic
to chose and we're really happy to chose this one.
So if any of you have any questions feel free to ask us after the presentation. over thanks!
