Comments on: Using Genetics to Pick Your Kids' Sports

By: Home

Home — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:42:50 +0000

I do believe the genetic testing for sports is but one of the factors in how your kids do in sports……like everything else in life one must look at lifestyle and the kids desire to pursue any sport.

By: KK-Bio student

KK-Bio student — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:03:42 +0000

This also reminds me of the movie GATTACA and the idea that we can choose the 'best' choice for our children instead of letting them decide on their own. If we intstill into our children the belief that what we say they are not able to do, they cannot do, then they will become dependent and unable to make decisions for themselves. This could, eventually, lead to a problem not only of people being unable to choose for themselves which sports they want to play, but also which paths of education, and also jobs they do or do not want to follow. This in turn, could lead to an entire generation of unhappy people who can find no means of escaping the repetitive circle of dependency which began when they were only children, not able to choose for themselves.

By: tkelly

tkelly — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:08:29 +0000

I have just been studying this in my Biology class. We focused on genetics, specifically gene mutations and testing. I agree that selection by something so predisposed,such as what only one gene can determine is wrong, and almost immoral. As said in the article there are MANY other factors that contribute to something such as being good at one sport. When people start testing genes to see if a person is 'good enough' for something, a whole new discrimination is formed. "Gene discrimination"... how scary! The genes one person has do not necessarily determine ones success in life; things like determination, focus, and sheer willingness and devotion to trying and succeeding are and will remain impossible to find out or 'understand' through genetic testing. ones life situation, s well as personality is (I think) the mane thing that determines our path of life.

By: J

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:56:49 +0000

Wow! this is interesting.
So does this mean possibly that in the future only people with good genes would be able to become athletes?
I saw this movie called GATTACA in my biology class and in the movie people were assigned jobs depending on how good their genes are. This article is really interesting because it shows that the movie could possibly become the reality.
But then I do not think this is ever going to happen because of the human nature and morals that we all carry in us.