Speaking of reasoning ... "we can mitigate that with normal medicine" -- for some illnesses. For many, it's an abbreviated lifetime, curtailed options, and so

Speaking of reasoning ... "we can mitigate that with normal medicine" -- for some illnesses. For many, it's an abbreviated lifetime, curtailed options, and some measure of ongoing suffering. I don't really care about historical precedents. They can best be used as a measure of how not to do something, rather than a suggestion that it not be done at all. Germline editing has the chance to relieve the suffering of real people. My entire life would likely to be quite different and much better, were it available back then. And yet a lot of people are just ... counted as part of the cost. Sorry you will die soon, and painfully, but at least we're not the Nazis.