UK to allow babies from three people

Re:UK to allow babies from three people by bayesianhorse on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @03:12AM (#8995821)

If genetic engineering really became this important to human "performance" or health, I would think that most countries who can afford it, will actually have a way for society to pay for such services. It's the right thing to do, and the most profitable for the society as a whole. Just as in health care the smart policy is to spread the cost and risks around and keep the providers in check so that they can't hold individual's health as a hostage.

Exception being the U.S., of course ...

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Re:UK to allow babies from three people by gpvos on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @04:27AM (#8995990)

Then it would increase the difference between rich and poor countries. I'm not sure that that would be any better.

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Re:UK to allow babies from three people by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @05:46AM (#8996174)

How would it be any different to the world today? The chasm between rich and poor nations is huge. The argument against this is similar in many ways to arguing against, say, smartphones because only the rich can afford them. And yet 'poor' people, even in our own countries, and in 'poor' countries have smartphones, or soon will have access to them.

As soon as a nation of people get organised enough to plan ahead well enough to copy existing technology, or trade it, then technology can be had by all.

I don't believe it makes a whole lot of sense for 'rich' people to preserve a specific set of technologies for themselves when they can get richer if more people are able to pay for it. And where that doesn't happen we see other countries copying the technology.

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