CRISPR will radically transform humanity: Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryoshttp://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature23305.html?foxtrotcallback=true …
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CRISPR radical human transformation: Picture a society with everyone really beautiful, smart, no reading glasses or allergies or asthma.
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CRISPR-edited humans won't have acne, won't need teeth straightening. They'll have teeth much more resistant to cavities. Not obese.
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Unfortunately, the list of uncontroversially desirable attributes is much smaller than the list of controversial ones. ...
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... If it's left to private agents, the outcome won't be politically correct. ...
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... If the government gets involved, it will want to engineer some type of socialist new man (incapable of bad-think). ...
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... So, like pretty much everything else, germ-line editing is going to be a battlefield, rather than a universalist social solution.
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