[DannyTN]

1. Can humans be improved? Yes, depending on your definition of improvement. God didn't make us perfect. He made us the way He wanted us. We don't run as fast as a cheetah, or see like an eagle, or breathe underwater, or bite the head off of males after mating with them.
2. We already improve humans in various ways. We use eye glasses and laser surgery to correct vision defects, pace makers to correct heart problems, artificial limbs for the one armed man, vehicles to allow us to go faster, planes to allow us to fly, telescopes to allow us to see great distances, submarines to allow us to go underwater, computers to retrieve information and perform calculations at lightening speeds, antibiotics to help our immune systems, various medications for all kinds of conditions, even supplements to improve our longevity though nobody really knows how long each of us are given.
3. So where do we draw the line? At genetic modifications? Would you allow gene editing to prevent correction of genetic disease? Assuming we knew precisely what we were doing, and weren't killing human embryos in experiments?
4. Would you allow experiments with uncertain outcomes on terminally ill patients? We already do with experimental medicines. Why not gene editing medicines>?
5. sanctity of life is important. Man was given authority to take life by God for reasons of social justice such as taking the life of a murderer. But no other reason is given. So harvesting fertilized human embryos for experimentation would seem to be forbidden.
6. But our knowledge is improving rapidly. So will the safety of experiments and treatments and enhancements.

   Botany Bay is not that far away. Captain Kirk showed us what could go wrong. But Bones McCoy showed us a lot that could go well.

[DannyTN]

Correction: Would you allow gene editing to prevent correction of genetic disease?

[cgbg]

The biggest issue in my mind is that there is no “we”.

What we have is a Cabal who want to decide what works for them—and cram it down the throats of everyone else.

We live in an age where the “mass media” is nothing but propaganda even to the point of using the exact same words and phrases—not even trying to pretend they are independent.

We live in an age where there is mass censorship in a thousand guises—where dissent from just about anything gets you fired and demonetized or banned from almost all large web sites.

At such a times there can be no debate, no reasoned discussion, not even real research.

There is just obedience.