Is there a set of international guidelines around the ethics of human genome editing?
If so, how are they enforced to ensure nations do not conduct unethical research & in experiments to further their own geopolitical goals?
If so, how are they enforced to ensure nations do not conduct unethical research & in experiments to further their own geopolitical goals?
Or if you are a parent and your child is actually affected, you will go to great lengths to do practically anything possible for him/her. Becoming parent changes everybody.
Your priorities will be very different from say 20-something childless person in such a case.
All that being said, what the guy actually did doesn't make much sense. HIV isn't top priority concern for anybody apart from poorest parts of Africa. You can protect against catching it pretty effectively. But yeah pandora box and all that.
Correct. It makes a lot more sense IMHO if you imagine that his motive might have been less to protect them from HIV and more to get his name in the history books.
Getting rid of diseases seems like a nobel cause to me.
Nazism is a spiritual disease and one i would be happy seeing continually wiped off the face of the earth.
Not sure if this is a joke, but the idea that removing people from earth due to their belief of who should be removed from earth seems a bit of a moral pickle, or at least a self perpetuating people-removal-machine.
>This is how eugenics happens
I am astounded at the simplicity and the speed at which eugenics can happen. Can you provide links, I would learn more of this rapid process in hopes of learning how to defend against it.
Eugenic ethics: https://www.csustan.edu/history/hitlers-ethic
A quote from feynman: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts"
Also eugenics is literally the belief that the genome can and should be improved via intervention beyond mate selection. Which you already hold. If you are incapable of seeing the connection between "we should be allowed to edit the genome" -> "we should improve the human genome" then i doubt you are engaging on good faith and im concerned about your elementary mental capacity
It’s possible, it’s cool, let’s do it.
(obviously the actual scientific experts have more context on the what and how, but that's not the question)
no ethics committee would ever approve transgenic human embryo experiments.
this also sounds really stupid. like there's no real science there, just a willingness to overstep ethical bounds in the pursuit of fame and fortune.
meanwhile, it sounds like actual scientists are exploring crispr/cas9 approaches to curing hiv infected persons.