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Ok you let me know how the world is in 50 years when near-perfect Chinese citizens by the millions will be demolishing the rest of the developed world in nearly every academic/intellectual measure.

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So we should delay life-saving and world-changing technology as long as possible until we can get some sort unrealistic international consensus (good luck with that, look at climate change) on the technology to make sure that the hand-wringing leftist collectivists and moralizing rightist collectivists are happy and nobody gets left behind?

I think it's hilarious that all the anti-CRISPR/anti-gene-editing people bring up dystopias when it's pretty obvious they want to live in a very Harrison Bergeron world.

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