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01-02-2020, 08:42 PM
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Re: BBC Storyville - The Gene Revolution: Changing Human Nature

Originally Posted by Savvy ->
No great advancements come without a cost. This technology could be used for evil as well as good. We could use it to breed a master race of soldiers as well as extending life and curing disease. Sometimes science advances faster than judgement and ethics.
Not curing disease, preventing those diseases that are hereditary, or have a hereditary component (smoking and other drug dependencies, alcoholic and eating related diseases as diabetes and heart).
From the dna of the single cell baby the "mistakes" are remedied.
Before the technique will be applicable on humans will take at least two decades. So questions of ethics need to be asked and answered before that.
 
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