IT is said that there are three kinds of individuals in this world. The first is the moral person who knows what is right or wrong and chooses to do the right thing. The second is the immoral one who knows the difference between right and wrong but chooses the wrong side. The third is the amoral person who does not know the difference between right and wrong and lives beyond the boundaries of morality. The amoral individual is the most dangerous of all.
Recently, a scientist was reported to have edited a DNA strand. This for me is a great cause for alarm. What if he or somebody else like him discovers the strand that governs conscience and edits it out of the consciousness of future human beings? And what if these conscienceless human beings are trained to become soldiers who in a declared or undeclared war carry out orders without regard for morality? What then will happen to mankind?
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