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Margarine [ˈmɑ:dʒərɪn] n. 人造奶油a yellow substance like butter made from animal or vegetable fats, used in cooking or spread on bread
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Which potential consequence of the genetic mapping excites or worries you most?
Genetic mapping is never a simple issue. The question whether we should continue to develop the genetic mapping has no easy answer and probably nerver will, which mostly depends on different people’s sense of worth like political stand.
Without careful management, the project which aimed at benefiting the world is very likely to end up like a Frankenstein monster which is used to talk about something that someone creates or invents that goes out of control and becomes dangerous, often destroying the person who created it.
Among all the potential consequences, discrimination worries me most. The possibility that companies will refuse the candidates who are predisposed to chronic diseases is probably higher than we can image, as we’v already been faced with the oversupply of graduates in certain specialties. Discrimination itself, though, is a matter of preference. For those who are so unreplaceable that companies can hardly reject them, genetic mapping can’t be a better thing. While for those who are struggling to get an ordinary job, genetic mapping is nothing but a nightmare. Maybe you just have to be stronger to overcome all the obstacles.
But the worry of unknown crisis should not be overestimated. No matter how terrible the genetic mapping’s disadvantages can be, we can’t deny his contribution to the better understanding of disease which is so remarkable. What we hope is just that if the development of genetic mapping is inevitable, we just want it to be more helpful than dreadful.