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What are your ethics around human genome editing? Do you think its ok? If an ethics committee said it was ok, would that make a difference to how you evaluate
by verisimi 5y ago
What are your ethics around human genome editing? Do you think its ok? If an ethics committee said it was ok, would that make a difference to how you evaluated it?
- a-dub 5y ago> What are your ethics around human genome editing? Do you think its ok? If an ethics committee said it was ok, would that make a difference to how you evaluated it? no ethics committee would ever approve transgenic human embryo experiments. this also sounds really stupid. like there's no real science there, just a willingness to overstep ethical bounds in the pursuit of fame and fortune. meanwhile, it sounds like actual scientists are exploring crispr/cas9 approaches to curing hiv infected persons.
- PradeetPatel 5y agoSeeing that I am not a certified professional in that domain. I would defer my judgement to a committee of experts.
- quinnjh 5y agoThis is how eugenics happens
- k__ 5y agoWasn't eugenics more about perceived superiority? Getting rid of diseases seems like a nobel cause to me.
- quinnjh 5y agoBeing gay was considered a disease. I have mental illness. The jews were considered unclean. Nazism is a spiritual disease and one i would be happy seeing continually wiped off the face of the earth.
- k__ 5y agoYes, same.
- boredumb 5y ago>Nazism is a spiritual disease and one i would be happy seeing continually wiped off the face of the earth. Not sure if this is a joke, but the idea that removing people from earth due to their belief of who should be removed from earth seems a bit of a moral pickle, or at least a self perpetuating people-removal-machine.
- SapporoChris 5y ago>>Seeing that I am not a certified professional in that domain. I would defer my judgement to a committee of experts. >This is how eugenics happens I am astounded at the simplicity and the speed at which eugenics can happen. Can you provide links, I would learn more of this rapid process in hopes of learning how to defend against it.
- quinnjh 5y agoWould you mind peeking at a comment i placed above? I have links in that one which address your concern directly. Eugenic ethics: https://www.csustan.edu/history/hitlers-ethic https://www.csustan.edu/history/hitlers-ethic A quote from feynman: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts" Also eugenics is literally the belief that the genome can and should be improved via intervention beyond mate selection. Which you already hold. If you are incapable of seeing the connection between "we should be allowed to edit the genome" -> "we should improve the human genome" then i doubt you are engaging on good faith and im concerned about your elementary mental capacity
- _3u10 5y agoYeah what an idiot. I’m totally fine with gene editing, I could give a shit how many experts disagree. It’s possible, it’s cool, let’s do it.
- quinnjh 5y agoHey at least youre not blindly following experts. Id rather end up in your camp ;)
- bpodgursky 5y agoAny self-proclaimed bioethics "expert" in the morality of this field has no more context on the ethics than you would have after an afternoon of browsing wikipedia and thinking about it carefully. (obviously the actual scientific experts have more context on the what and how, but that's not the question)
- mensetmanusman 5y agoAnyone can be an ethics expert after a short visit to Wikipedia?