[Karunamon]

Why do these discussions always swing towards reductions to the absurd and otherwise analogies that are more horrible than usual?

Your scenario is not a thing people are actually doing, or will actually do, and in a universe where it was, it's immune to the kind of regulation I was discussing anyways, so it's pointless to talk about.

Everything you do comes down to you controlling and manipulating your own body

We both know what we're discussing here. Stop it.

Who is harmed or even impacted in any way if I, say, make myself immune to malaria? Or give myself red hair or blue eyes? And don't have kids?

[Retra]

No, we don't know what we're discussing here. This is new technology with potentially wide-reaching, unforeseen consequences.

>Who is harmed or even impacted in any way if I, say, make myself immune to malaria? Or give myself red hair or blue eyes? And don't have kids?

When your experiment goes wrong, and you find yourself needing expensive hospital visits that you can't afford, who is going to pay for it?

And what do you mean "immune to regulation?" Is that like a "murder laws can't physically stop murderers, so why make it illegal" kind of thing?

[Karunamon]

who is going to pay for it?

The insurance that everyone in this country is required to have. And I meant "immune to regulation" in the same way that the war on drugs is a complete and total failure at its goals.