re: Patenting the Human Genome: What should be allowed? What will the results be?

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Editing of the human genome should be banned.

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said the horse-buggy drivers to Henry Ford

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1. If you are a Christian it is clearly wrong to attempt to edit what God has created in his own image.

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I am a Christian, and if I could change my genes to not form plaque in my arteries, I would do it in a second. My God would want this.

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2. If you are a materialistic atheist it is clearly wrong to edit the genetics of a species based on short term fads and a profit motive which can reduce its genetic diversity and thereby make it more susceptible to extinction.

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you lost me here - health, longevity, beauty, intelligence are not "short term fads"

to meaningfully limit intraspecies diversity would take a massive purposeful effort, likely enacted by a government, not to mention dozens of generations of horrifying human rights abuse. Do you think thats likely in America?