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by AstralStorm 2487 days ago
But what if ruining the future is not the outcome? If the therapy is beneficial, or even more so, required for the child to survive?

Not editing in this case could be construed as future child abuse or even murder.

As a note, chances of a child given the therapy, if it's randomly working, are no different than general population, most likely. And if they're better, there goes this argument.

Fearing known unknowns more than unknown unknowns is not logical. Of course people do it all the time. Why does nature get to play the dice but we cannot?

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>As a note, chances of a child given the therapy, if it's randomly working, are no different than general population, most likely.

That's not true - the average gene is more likely to be working than not, and the average mutation is more likely to break something, if it changes anything, than not.