Every technology ever has opened the door to dangerous possibilities. Caution is merited, but inaction carries culpability in the preventable negative outcomes

Every technology ever has opened the door to dangerous possibilities. Caution is merited, but inaction carries culpability in the preventable negative outcomes solved in a potential future that we deny through fear. And not disagreeing with your content, as I agree and think it's well written, but statements like "nice to look into the future and determine what the human being created would prefer, we can't do that" are part of what doesn't parse with me about this debate. As with the anthropic principle, life has no a priori preferences. It becomes and then it is. Before it is, it doesn't want anything. After it is, it wants to be as it is. Because what is it is its identity. There's a caveat for physical disabilities, and yes, that's a slippery slope as you've outlined. But how could one want to be another? If I told you that I could make you smarter, right now, with 100% certainty and safety, but that afterwards... you wouldn't be you as you are now... would you say yes? Possibly, but I feel there's a certain inherent unease with that question. What happens to me if I become other? My point being that this works in reverse too. If I am now as I was made, how would I feel about the choices made in my making? My assertion is that I wouldn't particularly care, because I am the result. So to wish otherwise would be to wish for the termination of my current identity. If there's a debate to be had, then let it be one the social or individual merits of the actual change sought, rather than in making changes or not.