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Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by PradeetPatel on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:23PM (#30738474)
Seeing that I am not a certified professional in that domain. I would defer my judgement to a committee of experts.
Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by bpodgursky on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:39PM (#30738581)
Any 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)

Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by mensetmanusman on Sunday March 20, 2022 @07:40AM (#30741826)
Anyone can be an ethics expert after a short visit to Wikipedia?
Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by quinnjh on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:35PM (#30738554)
This is how eugenics happens
Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by k__ on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:44PM (#30738607)
Wasn't eugenics more about perceived superiority?

Getting rid of diseases seems like a nobel cause to me.

Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by quinnjh on Saturday March 19, 2022 @08:37PM (#30738879)
Being 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.

Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by boredumb on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:55AM (#30753536)
>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.

Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by k__ on Sunday March 20, 2022 @07:55AM (#30741913)
Yes, same.
Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by SapporoChris on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:46PM (#30738621)
>>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.

Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by quinnjh on Saturday March 19, 2022 @08:37PM (#30738876)
Would 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

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

Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by _3u10 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:48PM (#30738630)
Yeah 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.

Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by quinnjh on Saturday March 19, 2022 @08:38PM (#30738891)
Hey at least youre not blindly following experts. Id rather end up in your camp ;)