People think Pandora's multitudinous boxes are myth and folklore. This is another treasure chest stolen and opened from the gods just like Fire, matches, H bombs, genetic engineering & now "edited babies". Who really cares if this act of treason or exploration is reprehensible, irresponsible, or even if "curiosity killed the hominid-cat"?
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Making Blackmarket designer babies like so much consumer tech, will go the ways of the WWW to hackers, or clean energy to warmongers building Fat Boys, or Fire-Tech to Prometheus punished for bringing fire to his Hateful People like Maui being abandoned to Pele for lifting CRISPR isles. Thankfully, unlike Prometheus who was even alive by ravens, only the rich will be able to afford designer babies, or perhaps African-Americans on wait-lists can have children free from sickle-cell disease (but then their protection against Malaria will rise in the next-gen African genome).
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The gene genie is out of the bottle as David Bowie might say if he could live 4ever. He JK is the joker who was imprisoned just like Galileo to a still iCentered Copernican world lost in Dreams of Designer Babies subverting God's Natural Selection. This discovery cuts evolution's line like naughty beasts of burden gnawing at too much curiosity while waiting in a Darwinian line that goes around the Earth for millions of years.
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Will designer babies be safe and effective? Will changing 1 human gene have no effect on one person’s life? How about one society such as Africans with reduced immunity to malaria? Or One humanity? Nah. Is the butterfly effect a fake? Don’t you think? Infinitesimally small things like the Big Bang aren't catastrophic, nah. 1 designer baby Jesus cannot change the world. Sure? If we edited Jesus out of existence, will i.t. be safe? Will we be the same once another one of Pandora’s box is opened? H JK?
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Folks, this is either an express lane to Human extinction or the widening of the gap between the Haves who will purchase designer babies off the Dark Web AND the Have-Nots who are stuck with God’s human evolution 1.0. At least this may pave the way for humans to get off this irresponsible planet and breath unnaturally on Mars with our collective, genetically edited next gen of Martians free of Humanity.
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Pray for He Jiankui. Ask yourself, would you have imprisoned Galileo for revealing the Power in Truth & Lies? Are you better off now that we are no longer the center of the universe biologically speaking?
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https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/02/crispr-babies-scientist-he-jiankui-should-not-be-villainized/