[cellularmitosis]

Then you increase X until the problem goes away.

Your thinking on this is a bit short-sighted. Right now, this might only be available to “rich” old geezers. With test-tube burgers already under development, it seems likely that test-tube blood isn’t much further off. By the time you are an old geezer, blood will be a cheap commodity. But only if we get started on the problem now, instead of shooing people away with moral scare-mongering.

[kybernetikos]

One of the things democracy struggles with is balancing the interests of the rich against the interests of everyone else. Because the rich have far more time and money to spend on persuading others to vote against their interests.

Relying on a partially captured government to set the right price is dangerous in this case.

[rscho]

Yeah, so this again is a matter of opinions, but since you are relying on assumptions about the future, I would say that test-tube blood is probably much further away than you think it is.

So I prefer to rely on verifiable present-day fact to decide on socially critical issues.