Like any scientific or medical procedure, the possibility of misuse or abuse exists.
Well, some procedures are inherently abusive: Like sex reassignment surgery.
This one is potentially benign provided they can pull it off without fucking it up somehow. It'd provide a lot more latitude for parents to decide how many children they want and when.
Could also make things like avoiding fetal abnormalities easier.
Not equating it with reassignment surgery. I was stating that humans are the type of people who fuck up everything. As the saying goes, "This is why we can't have nice things."
True.
How many technologies that have not been employed to intentionally harm people?
Familiarise yourself with the Revolutionary Phenotype. It’s a book but it’s been reviewed well enough that all the core ideas can be understood without reading it . In short, meddling in gene modding will start to roll the ball towards humans becoming sterile servile workers, and it’s almost impossible to stop after it’s moving
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