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> Short term suffering from failed experiments. By "short term" you mean "only until the kids die of their mutations"?

• im3w1l 7y ago
  Well I was thinking more along the lines of disabilities, weakness and abnormalities, but I guess death too.
  • neuronic 7y ago
    You guess harming a human baby to the point of death might be a problem?
    • imtringued 7y ago
      The goal of gene therapies isn't to kill their patients but it wouldn't surprise me if introducing a lesser disease in exchange for curing a serious disease would be considered an acceptable outcome even if it means that people who have not been seriously ill will now suffer from the lesser disease more frequently.
      • neuronic 7y ago
        But the problem with all of this aren't these strategic questions about eradicating disease and improving the human condition. It's that all of this is happening within a frame of ignorance with regards to the insane, elusive complexity that is genetics. Somehow the idea that changing genes at will can be predictable isn't dying off.