Ok, so while irrational, what makes this not mean that FOXDIE is about to become a reality?
They are also a heap of excessive effort when a sniper rifle or drone missile works fine.
I also fail to see how it could help to create something like FOXDIE (I have only read a short wiki article about it)? I mean you can create viruses with a certain sequence already now, so is no clear connection between creating a targeted virus and genome editing? Sure, you can edit the genome but injecting a single malicious gene is much easier (which seems to be the case for the fictional FOXDIE)