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> Id like to see the flood gates really open up for gene editing for diseases, preventative treatments, and even cosmetic.

Me too, because it's fun to consider DNA as some code we can edit to get outcomes we want!

However, some people are ethically opposed to that - but piggybacking on the preference people have for having children should be able to move the Overton window!

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It really is inspiring. Yeah I take the opposite side, ethically speaking. I think its cruel to not allow people to fix their bodies in the ways they want and in many cases need. Im in the max body-editing camp. Also this should resolve race issues once and for all which is fun to think about.

> Also this should resolve race issues once and for all which is fun to think about.

I doubt it. One of the root causes of “race” issues is humans using prior probabilities. Unless that changes, then the priors will simply move on from being skin tone based. I would suggest they already have for some portions of the population.

> some people are ethically opposed to that

Body autonomy may be a fundamental right requiring legal recognition. It curiously cuts across many protracted debates: abortion, vaccine requirements, transgender rights and now gene editing. (I suppose abortion and germ-line edits are a special case.)

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