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One could easily rewrite your comment to lament the invention of the automobile: Who will be responsible for the suffrage [sic] that accident victims will inev
by ThrowawayR2 8y ago
One could easily rewrite your comment to lament the invention of the automobile:
Who will be responsible for the suffrage [sic] that accident victims will inevitably go through when an automobile driver screws up (and make no mistake, automobile drivers WILL screw up).
The answer is: yes, a few suffer, the vast majority benefits, and life goes on. Your comment insists on a notion of perfect safety that exists nowhere in the real world.
- ethbro 8y agoMy larger concern is who is paying for us not making the genetic effort: afflicted individuals and the social costs of trying to give them at least an approximately normal life. Weighing any risk against that cost? I can't make a pursuasive argument that we shouldn't proceed. Or as John Donne quipped in 1623, "... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."