Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first

Re:Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first by vox_mollis on Saturday November 07, 2015 @10:44PM (#10527362)

The obvious solution is to change incentives. The solution that will actually work, but will bring endless accusations of cruelty and heartlessness and Godwin's law, is simple:

Bring back shaming. Encourage fat shaming. Encourage alcohol shaming. We still encourage smoke-shaming, and it has resulted in a reduction in smoking. We need to stop being so afraid and sensitive to shame. It is a natural human tendency to police behaviors with negative externalities via shame.

Pass all the laws you want, but social shame is far more effective.

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Re:Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first by codewithcheese on Sunday November 08, 2015 @07:12AM (#10528293)

Shaming would only make things worse. From my experience alcoholics and over-eaters do not respond well to negative social stimuli. i.e. they will eat and drink more.

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Re:Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first by Swizec on Saturday November 07, 2015 @11:04PM (#10527417)

This reminds me of a Black Mirror episode where at some point in the future, fat shaming was brought to such an extreme, that everybody's job was just to pedal stationary bikes. And if you slacked, you got fat, and if you got fat, you got fired, and then you had to wear a bright yellow uniform and appear on fat shaming reality tv shows and clean up everybody's trash.

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