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by Retra 3849 days ago
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?

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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.