imagine how mad you’d be if you were born in the last country/generation to prohibit gene editing and everyone else was healthy & pretty
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Replying to @literalbanana
imagine how mad you'd be if you were one of the early adopters of what seemed like a safe process to be healthy and pretty and twenty years later you developed early onset alzhiemers or turned into one giant tumor.
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Replying to @zacbracz @literalbanana
the thing about the precautionary principle is, it prohibits the precautionary principle
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only if your formulation is so neurotic that it lapses into paradox, but that's a very general philosophical problem that gets sidestepped in practice all the time. it's just prudent to recognise how bad humans are at incorporating downside risk into decision making.
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yeah one thing that always shocks me is people thinking that the status quo is normal and okay not a total emergency
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