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Re:CRISPR used to genetically modify viable human embryos fo... by jbreckmckye on Friday March 10, 2017 @12:31PM (#13840287)
> How do you address this with policy? The same way we should be addressing inequality right now.

How _will_ we address this with policy? The same way we already do: meaning that we do not, and in fact are thrall to an army of lobbyists and interest groups who would have us believe this inequality is not just necessary but in fact morally redeemable.

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Re:CRISPR used to genetically modify viable human embryos fo... by antisthenes on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:28PM (#13841309)
That just means you have bigger problems than a few genetically enhanced humans running around.

Which is, in fact, already happening without genetic enhancement: the Olympics are a pretty much a display of peak human genetic fitness, and no one loses their mind about it.

What would be a problem: genetically enhanced humans reach some critical mass and decide to purge the non-enhanced ones à la Eugenics wars in Star Trek (purely hypothetical)

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