The Moral Implications of Enhancing Human Beings.

Ever heard of Oxytocin? Neither did i until friday. It appears that people can create drugs now that can physically alter people's internal biology. Drinking caffeine and taking viagra pills is beginners stuff compared to this. Some mad scientist came out with some theory that taking a course of pills at a young age could enhance mental capabilities. Lowering the levels of testosterone in psychopaths means they wont have the addiction to kill another person again supposedly. But can we really be sure that a psychopath wont be inclined to rape, kill and mutilate another human being simply because their hormones have been played around with. 

They fed rats drugs that they have developed (a lot of companys' drugs that is) and they had a list of rats that were: mentally superior, anti-cancerous, more metabolically efficient, fitter etc) drugs that humans could possibly use.

IF this does turn out to be the future for all humans, there could be positive aspects along with the negatives. 

1. We could all be pretty powerful people when we are older.
2. We would effectively be playing God,
3. If drugs could enhance humans, we would be pretty good at enhancing cancerous cells and other dysfunctional cells.

Although, if you think about what we would then be vulnerable to, and capable to

1. people could go crazy after a few pills too many,
2. If scientists could create new drugs that alter humans positively, they should be able to certainly create ones that could deform us.

However, at the current rate we are at, we must begin to ask ourselves, are these drugs that we should consider taking. They say that these drugs are most efficient when taken by newborn to very young infants. Is it bad parenting to deny children of these drugs? or the latter.

Personally i think that biology has gone too far into this field so that it could destroy a lot of people. At this rate, the percentage of people capable of destroying the or part of the world would increase. Afterall, any mad scientist could recreate the black death with a new strain of pathogen thus causing a pandemic.