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Likely a troll comment but I'll respond like it's not since this is so important: Ummm, have you seen Gattaca? Let me spoil it for you: it doesn't end well. Ev

Likely a troll comment but I'll respond like it's not since this is so important: Ummm, have you seen Gattaca? Let me spoil it for you: it doesn't end well. Every reasonable scientist working in CRISPR is against editing the human germline. Here is a good piece on it: https://www.nature.com/news/don-t-edit-the-human-germ-line-1.17111 https://www.nature.com/news/don-t-edit-the-human-germ-line-1... Also note, why do you assume that "we" would be in control? Suppose a government took control of your genome? Or a private company? Given the expense there is almost no way it would be democratic.

Creationer 7y ago
I have seen Gattaca - the society was able to achieve interstellar colonisation, and the story focuses on one young fraud, who despite health defects, cheats his way into the program. Gattaca presents a Utopian future, not a Dystopian one. "We" will be in control because embryos cannot be edited without a process that is essentially IVF. If governments are going to force this on women, we have bigger problems to deal with. It will be as straightforward as a couples using the technology to select for and against certain straightforward traits.
simplespace433 7y ago
I watched Gattaca and drew the opposite conclusion. The film defends science through by walking us through the consequences of clinging to the superstition of our ancestors. Being genetically inferior does not wipe away the human drives to belong and achieve. The life of those less fortunate is harder and it is dishonest to pretend that everyone has an equally fantastic life. The main character suffers because of the careless choice his parents made. Even though his parents change their views and recant with their second child, the protagonist remains left behind. In the world of Gattaca we see that only a few religious nut jobs inflict natural conception on their children. They are called god-born because they are the product of religious extremists. Genetic engineering is common and accessible to all classes. For example portable genetic testing services so ubiquitous that they are available at company party. As viewers, we should take away what I means to choose to cripple another human permanently. You should think long and hard about winning Jesus points for a second life by consigning a real person with the same ability to feel and dream to Hell in this life.
ipsum2 7y ago
> Ummm, have you seen Gattaca? Let me spoil it for you: it doesn't end well. Argument from fiction doesn't work, because the evidence is fictional.
LMYahooTFY 7y ago
>Every reasonable scientist working in CRISPR is against editing the human germline. I don't understand precisely how "reasonable" is defined here. It's a subjectively loaded notion as it is, and I feel compelled to express a lot of skepticism toward any claim of "every reasonable person is of the position I'm currently taking".

Creationer 7y ago

I have seen Gattaca - the society was able to achieve interstellar colonisation, and the story focuses on one young fraud, who despite health defects, cheats his way into the program. Gattaca presents a Utopian future, not a Dystopian one. "We" will be in control because embryos cannot be edited without a process that is essentially IVF. If governments are going to force this on women, we have bigger problems to deal with. It will be as straightforward as a couples using the technology to select for and against certain straightforward traits.

simplespace433 7y ago

I watched Gattaca and drew the opposite conclusion. The film defends science through by walking us through the consequences of clinging to the superstition of our ancestors. Being genetically inferior does not wipe away the human drives to belong and achieve. The life of those less fortunate is harder and it is dishonest to pretend that everyone has an equally fantastic life. The main character suffers because of the careless choice his parents made. Even though his parents change their views and recant with their second child, the protagonist remains left behind. In the world of Gattaca we see that only a few religious nut jobs inflict natural conception on their children. They are called god-born because they are the product of religious extremists. Genetic engineering is common and accessible to all classes. For example portable genetic testing services so ubiquitous that they are available at company party. As viewers, we should take away what I means to choose to cripple another human permanently. You should think long and hard about winning Jesus points for a second life by consigning a real person with the same ability to feel and dream to Hell in this life.

ipsum2 7y ago

> Ummm, have you seen Gattaca? Let me spoil it for you: it doesn't end well. Argument from fiction doesn't work, because the evidence is fictional.

LMYahooTFY 7y ago

>Every reasonable scientist working in CRISPR is against editing the human germline. I don't understand precisely how "reasonable" is defined here. It's a subjectively loaded notion as it is, and I feel compelled to express a lot of skepticism toward any claim of "every reasonable person is of the position I'm currently taking".