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IMHO if you have the means to make your kids smarter (all other things being equal) it's unethical not to do so.

• vixen99 8y ago
  Ethics won't matter at all if it comes down to our survival on Earth. Among the multitude of reasons for getting several factors smarter very rapidly is the necessity for developing the means to avoid immanent extinction when we detect a suitably-sized lump of rock coming our way from space. If it's one with a diameter of 10-100 km then with current technology it's all over bar nothing (not even shouting). Back to square 1 or maybe 1.1 if we're lucky. You'd think we'd focus on this rather than on some of the issues which seem to obsess us. https://www.sciencealert.com/a-huge-previously-undetected-asteroid-just-came-very-close-to-earth https://www.sciencealert.com/a-huge-previously-undetected-as...
• senectus1 8y ago
  and what if gene edited children all produce children with autistic conditions? We dont know enough about it to allow it open slather in the community at large.
  • chr1 8y ago
    Then this gene edited children will again use gene editing to produce children with genes similar to theirs that are already known to not produce too many autistic conditions. > We dont know enough about it to allow it open slather in the community at large. Who are those "guardians of the community" that are allowed to decide what technology community at large can have access to and what can't? You can argue for regulation preventing fraud: doctors hiding possible complications, editing different genes than what was advertised, etc. but you can't disallow people to decide with what genetic code they create their own children.