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Posted on 09/13/2020 9:31:04 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
With an extraordinary new technology called CRISPR, we can now edit DNA—including human DNA. But how far should we go? Gene editing promises to eliminate certain genetic disorders like sickle cell disease. But the applications quickly raise ethical questions.
Is it wrong to engineer soldiers to feel no pain, or to resurrect an extinct species?
And is there harm in allowing parents to choose their child’s features, like eye color or height? The scientists who pioneered human genome studies and CRISPR grapple with these questions. (Premiered September 9, 2020)
(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...
If it can cure the mental disorder that leads to Leftism then I’m all for it.
Was not this why the frantic efforts to find a gene causing homsex deviancy has vanished?
So far atomic science has been used for good. even the atom bombs to end world 2 were for good.
Atomic medicine has been for good.
There will be people that will always try to use something for bad. That doesn’t mean we should stop learning and striving.
It doesn’t mean it’s evil because God gave us the brains to discover how to do something.
Absolutely. The usual pattern seems to be surviving on-rushing disaster by drawing back from the precipice at the last possible moment (or clawing our way back over the edge), congratulating ourselves for surviving (well, most of us, more or less), and then POSSIBLY establishing the controls to keep our collective lack of self control from endangering us again.
The commercial biotech engineering firms and university labs presently doing CRISPR research are at least under some form of supervision. That can be always be strengthened.
Your cartoon points to the real danger; free lancing geneticists (degreed and amateurs) pursuing their own intellectual, political, social, sexual, or whatever agendas and grasping onto the notion that genetic engineering of organisms can somehow aid in implementing them.
Most people, perhaps even a vast majority of them, have sufficient feelings of responsibility, compassion, and empathy for others to keep such impulses in check. But for a small, actually very small fraction, of the population, those restraints are eaten away by envy, hatred, feelings of resentment, etc. and they only desire to use their skills and their intellect to achieve their dark purposes. For those who doubt this, simply consider the ingenuity and effort that bombers will sometimes put into designing and crafting their infernal weapons. Intellect subservient to evil is a recurring theme in individual life histories and in the lives of nations.
There have to be “tells,” warnings or indicators, that act as tip offs if this technology is being used outside controlled, regulated, and supervised environments. These need to be identified and carefully monitored.
We know a lot about genes but what we don’t know is frightening. Consider the various genes that yield green eyes. There are several. And it appears to me that God was into code reuse. Just a short while ago, they were talking about “junk dna.”. To me, that says they just don’t understand it all.
i would pay to genetically edit out facial, nose and ear hair. It all itches and I would be much happier without it.
Wait until you see what China does with this technology. It will be a nightmare.
Its all about having subjects to experiment on without rules
Lol!!
Luckily, you don’t need a college education to do genetic engineering—you can order a kit from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/DIY-Bacterial-Genome-Engineering-CRISPR/dp/B071ZXW1TW
While this may not be the best start for human genome projects, it’s definitely enough to get you started with some nice home-brew corona viruses...
Luckily, we have this guy to show us where this is going:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/biohacking-stunts-crispr/553511/
Of interest...CRSPR ...is a way of snipping out DNA...was first discovered in bacteria as that is what it uses to edit out infective or defective dna...the enzymes are called...restriction endonucleases...look it up for a brief intro to the stunning complexity of those tiny tiny “bags of protoplasm”...which obviously formed deep in water next to a thermal sea vent.
CRISPR has been around for a couple of decades and is now starting to be applied to Human genetics...
In a way, CRISPR is like AI...they are both new technologies that have great promise for improving lives...for example, both could be applied to curing cancers...
However, there is also the possibility of evil intentions and unintended consequences with the development of these technologies...
The possibilities for both Good & Evil are endless...must be monitored carefully...
My first thought, “what could possibly go wrong?”
Mark
Commies want to edit us out after age 65. When we can no longer do their labor
So do the globalists. They agree on many things/agendas/models for running a prison planet but they just see themselves as the Arcadians ruling the globe rather than the mandarins.
I was sort of thinking of something like the "Aliens 4" DNA lab, but same basic results...
Mark
“Commies want to edit us out after age 65. When we can no longer do their labor”
You mean kind of like corporations?
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