some immediately obvious points of comparison on different dimensions: - in vitro fertilization - prenatal vitamins - in utero surgery
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@ellegist one secular conservative objection might simply be Chesterton what happens if we remove a lot of variation from large portions of the population? what are the emergent or systematic effects of moving toward a genetic monoculture? maybe hard to sayShow this thread -
i lean pretty hard pro crispr wand net, but I worry about those aforementioned considerations
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Church has opinied on this (of course it has!) and is decidedly negative apart from medical cases I wonder if the social understanding of what's "medical" may end up being pretty flexible, thoughhttps://twitter.com/ChrisCroy/status/1314147854802452480?s=19 …
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possibly not if it involves embryo destruction I bet
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if we give prenatal vitamins to prevent, or use in utero surgery to correct, spina bifida: are we thwarting god?
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The Catholic Church's position is that fixing defects in individuals is good but population level efforts and improvement are extremely sus.https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/08/catholic-church-not-keen-human-genetic-engineering/ …
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What’s their position on eugenic mate selection? (Marrying smart, so you’ll have smart kids)
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