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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1165 points jbredeche | 2 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.443s | 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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ninetyninenine ◴[15 May 25 20:20 UTC] No.43998916[source]▶
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1. cooper_ganglia ◴[15 May 25 20:45 UTC] No.43999172[source]▶
The anti-eugenics guy just said he would "absolutely" murder a baby...?
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2. ninetyninenine ◴[15 May 25 21:27 UTC] No.43999498[source]▶
I would if I can foresee the future. But with eugenics you can't foresee the future. Self artificially selecting for genetic traits doesn't guarantee a good future. There's no gene for recreating Hitler either.