Comment by notliketherest

Interesting ethical issues arise when talking about "writing genomes" and essentially creating a designer human synthetically. Now let's say the scientific community decides against doing this based on ethical reasons. What's to stop rogue scientists from going ahead with the research and going around the global community? Would they need the protection of a nation state to move forward? What could be done to stop them? We're getting into cloners from Kamino territory here...