Designer babies is the start. Like I already believe if you're "selecting" something like your baby's gender, you're fuckin Hitler. But then, my roommate was all, "Well what if you could remove the trait for Huntington's that runs in the family?"

So there's clearly a spectrum of ways that genetic engineering could go.

The most interesting case to me is of He Jianku, who reportedly began studying and modifying human embryos. CIA fear disinfo, or Chinese scientists just marching ahead and setting the new standards of the 21st century?

    • Cysioland [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I can't shake the feeling that cancer (as in the mechanism of runaway limitless cell growth) serves some kind of an obscure hidden biological purpose and shit's gonna go south in unpredictable ways if we, like, eliminate the ability for the body to make cancers.