[landryraccoon]

It's equally risky not to do it.

Human genetic engineering is a completely new technology. It could be massively disruptive or a dud. But if it is disruptive, then people who are conservative and late to get on board will be left behind.

If you're risk adverse, that's probably why it concerns you. Are you afraid it works, or afraid it doesn't?

[Retra]

It is usually better to be the inventor of a new weapon than to sit back and let all your enemies do it instead.

[ben_w]

When testing a new weapon, it is important to make sure it doesn’t explode in your face.

I’m not too worried about genetically modified humans, but I think there is a risk someone will make a synthetic “perfect plague” combining high transmission before it’s symptomatic with high lethality — think “breath transmitted HIV”.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_virology