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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1168 points jbredeche | 1 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | 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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1. danielodievich ◴[16 May 25 00:21 UTC] No.44000651[source]▶
For a nice thoughtful imagination of said future, Nancy Kress's Beggars in Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain suggests one possible outcome. It has both gene editing to make better humans and unproductive masses. A short yet powerful read.