> At least one point of those ethicists is to stop people who are naive from doing things with permanent consequences without first checking to see what those consequences would be.
Are the consequences really that permanent? It's pretty easy (in China) to monitor a handful of test subjects with heritable mutations and make sure they don't reproduce.
> At this stage of the science you're more likely to cause harm than cure disease
The potential upside of developing the science is huge, which is essentially what He is doing.
Are the consequences really that permanent? It's pretty easy (in China) to monitor a handful of test subjects with heritable mutations and make sure they don't reproduce.
> At this stage of the science you're more likely to cause harm than cure disease
The potential upside of developing the science is huge, which is essentially what He is doing.