These things fascinate me, and it makes me wonder how close we are to the Gattaca-esque ethical debate.
All the same, the fact that we're close to gene editing feels like something our of a SciFi book, and I think that's pretty cool.
All the same, the fact that we're close to gene editing feels like something our of a SciFi book, and I think that's pretty cool.
I think our moves toward creating a more pluralized society, where people that have been historically deemed "genetically inferior" (the disabled, non-white people, trans people, women) have made slow and steady gains, are such that erasing that progress would require more changes to society than simply allowing genetic modification.
Genetic engineering an easy scapegoat, a slippery-slope argument that lets us jump too fast to the dystopic ending of our choice. A storyline that reduces societal, intra-personal progress to individual genetic choices is missing a big chunk of the puzzle.