Hey there. My comment came off emotional; I'm not sorry for that, but I think my stance came across weakly. I'm not saying there aren't very real issues that n

Hey there. My comment came off emotional; I'm not sorry for that, but I think my stance came across weakly. I'm not saying there aren't very real issues that need to be addressed with manipulating human genetics. I've seen GATTACA too ;). The issues I had with the article (which I've since skimmed) are this (try to read it in a friendly tone...I'm emotionally invested in this, but I'm not irritated): * The term "Eugenics" may be correct in this situation, but it's historically loaded with extremely negative baggage. It felt like click bait. * Comparing disease removal by genetic manipulation to optional enhancements by genetic manipulation is unhelpful. One allows for the other, but that doesn't mean we must allow them as a pair. * The wealth gap for this treatment is going to be no different from the wealth gap in any other new, expensive treatment we currently use. Poor people will still have less access to any expensive treatment, this isn't going to be different in any way. It's a problem, yes, but it's not specific to Genetic manipulation, it's specific to medicine. * Our ability to screen people for genetic defects and decide if we want or don't want children is already excellent; I know I'm a carrier for Batten disease, my brother's killer. Had my wife also been a carrier I just wouldn't have had biological children. That's not Eugenics, that's sanity. Abortion of diseased embryos is a far more complex, but orthogonal moral issue which we've already been dealing with for a long time. * Our legal system limits this sort of experimentation and it's terribly slow to change. Even autonomous cars, which are safer and less accident prone than humans, are going to take a long while to get approved. Saying we're on a slippery slope ignores how much regulation there is over this. I'd even argue what we're dealing with is a slippery slope uphill. Encouraging research into, and legalization of, genetic manipulation to cure fatal diseases is almost certainly not a slippery slope because of the legal structures we've build around such research.