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Field stuck permanently in limbo because "ethics".

• amelius 7y ago
  Ethics are a good reason to postpone research in a certain direction. However, the frightening part is that countries with lower ethical standards can still do whatever they want and over time even gain a technological advantage over the US. We need to figure out how to deal with this.
  • wetpaws 7y ago
    Ethics is absolutely not an argument to postpone any kind of research. It does not solve the problem, it just hides it under a rug, essentially creating two problem out of one.
• The_rationalist 7y ago
  Why doesn't "ethics" account deaths caused by not allowing human DNA editing? Ethics is not a complex thing despite what most people believe. Utilitarism is scientifical ethics.