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by mytailorisrich 1951 days ago
This is why the technology will require a strict legal framework.

If someone has their genome edited to remove or fix a defective gene that causes a disease that's probably fine but other things may be banned or maybe allowed on the condition that the person be sterilised or banned from reproducing. All of those possibilities also raise the issue of enforcement, so once the genie is out of the bottle is it inevitable that we become a society of 'mutants' (for lack of a better word)?