CRISPR and other tools aren’t science fiction anymore. If the wealthy get there first, what happens to everyone else?

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    If the ‘rich’ are anything about choosing genes as they have been about choosing plastic surgery, we know that most of them will make a complete hack of it and their offspring will suffer for it.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 hours ago

      Exactly what I mean! Every time we’ve gotten real, subjective choices about the design of an organism we’ve ended up with something that’s paradoxically kinda bad by anyone’s judgement.