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Of course most people are going to support editing it to "treat medical conditions or improve health" the question becomes what precisely are "medical conditions" and when should they be treated.

Very few people are going to say that those people with cancer should die because we shouldn't do something to save them.

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It's going to be interesting.

At first people may want to treat physical expressions of health, then mental psychological and then cosmetic.

At some point people will think about the genetics of gender (in multiple dimensions, not just sex at birth but gender) and race and all the questions and opinions that will bring.

And of course the desired traits like strength, beauty, height, intelligence.

Science by consensus. Let's see how that works out.

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