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Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by saiya-jin on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:41PM (#30738590)
I don't think they would mean that much when things get personal. Ie you want to have kids but genetic heart disease runs in your family. The risk for down syndrome is 5x the average. And so on.

Or if you are a parent and your child is actually affected, you will go to great lengths to do practically anything possible for him/her. Becoming parent changes everybody.

Your priorities will be very different from say 20-something childless person in such a case.

All that being said, what the guy actually did doesn't make much sense. HIV isn't top priority concern for anybody apart from poorest parts of Africa. You can protect against catching it pretty effectively. But yeah pandora box and all that.

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Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by daniel-thompson on Saturday March 19, 2022 @08:05PM (#30738726)
> All that being said, what the guy actually did doesn't make much sense. HIV isn't top priority concern for anybody apart from poorest parts of Africa. You can protect against catching it pretty effectively.

Correct. It makes a lot more sense IMHO if you imagine that his motive might have been less to protect them from HIV and more to get his name in the history books.

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