Two claims without any arguments to support them: > Its not like everyone, everywhere will start gene editing at the same time. When gene editing technology b

Two claims without any arguments to support them: > Its not like everyone, everywhere will start gene editing at the same time. When gene editing technology becomes available, it most likely becomes available across the world at the same time. Sure, poor people might not have access to it, but the upper classes in all countries will. > but with time humanity can progress and solve most problems. Wishful thinking. We're about 100 years into the era of human development where we can annihilate ourselves through our own action, and plenty of evidence points to our continued survival being caused by sheer luck (just look up Stanislav Petrov) or because the cause-and-effect changes take longer than 100 years (as in climate change). And the possible avenues for self-annihilation are only expanding. It used to be "only" nuclear war and climate change, soon it's also gene editing, and the robot uprising is already on the horizon for the next 100 years or so.