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Well, china is already harvesting organs from political prisoners so that isn't too far of a stretch [0]. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting

• chii 8y ago
  Harvesting organs can directly benefit the regime. The risk is bad PR, but that may be mitigated by making it secret. The gene editing of embryoes, if successful, benefits only the unborn and their future generation. The political party (and those in charge) don't directly benefit - but they suffer the bad PR and backlash if failure happens. The cost/benefit analysis tells me that this isn't worth risking at all.
  • wallace_f 8y ago
    I mean it wouldn't be the first time a leader builtna foundation for their successive generation.