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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1168 points jbredeche | 3 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.468s | source
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morkalork ◴[15 May 25 19:55 UTC] No.43998684[source]▶
I think it was here a few years ago that I read a comment saying that sick children will be the Trojan horse for normalizing gene editing of humans, because who could say no to sick children, right? Well, guess it's here now, so how long utill the eugenics wars start?
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3. ninetyninenine ◴[15 May 25 21:30 UTC] No.43999514[source]▶
A baby Hitler gaurantees a future with a grown up Hitler. Killing the baby eliminates that future.

There could be other babies that can also grow up to be future Hitlers. So let's say 4 such babies exist. By killing one I eliminated 1/4 for futures with Grown up Hitlers that exist.

This whole thread is getting flagged. Likely by an irrational parent who can't even compute natural selection, babe, and Hitler all in a single paragraph.