our genes are what make us human. Tamper with those and what it means to be human could be lost. Do you trust this technology with ISIS? China? Iran, etc.? Nuclear power was going to save us. Clean energy. We have nukes and 3-headed Japanese fish. Nuclear weapons are NOTHING compared to gene modification.
If we abstain from such genetic research, you are therefore saying ISIS, the PRC, etc. would be so inspired that they, too, would abstain from that research..?
The opposite is true.
And I KNOW that China’s own research proceeds totally independent of our own, our laws has impeded us that much already.
Most US labs can do little w/o Chinese grad students, or at least that is the feeling now, true or not.